Adding Background Sounds to an HTML Page

There are two tags which enable you to add sounds to a web page.  Internet explorer uses the <BGSOUND> tag and Netscape uses the <EMBED> tag.

<EMBED>

This may be configured to either play the sound when the page is opened, or on selection by the user.

Example:
<EMBED src=/mysounds/jingle.mid width=144 height=60 AUDOTSTART="true" LOOP="1">

AUTOSTART - when set to true will play the sound on opening the web page
Loop = n, The sound will loop n times.  set LOOP=true to loop continuously, or untiul the stop button on the console is clicked.
WIDTH and HEIGHT. This is how the sound will be display. 
HIDDEN="true", set to wither true or false tdepending on whether you want to show the item on the page

It is a good idea to provide an alternative image for users who's browser does not support the embed command.

<EMBED src=/mysounds/jingle.mid width=144 height=60 AUDIOTSTART="true" LOOP="1">
<NOEMBED>Your browser doesn't support EMBED, but you can still listen to the background sound of this page by <A HREF="/mysounds/jingle.mid"> clicking here.</A><NOEMBED>

Sound File Compatability

The <EMBED> tag will play audio files in WAV, AIFF, AU, and MIDI formats.

• MIDI (.mid) format give you a high quality of digital sound.
• WAV (.wav) format was developed for use with Microsoft's Windows. You can record .wav using Windows. The sound quality is not as good as MIDI, but the file is smaller.
• AU (.au) was developed by Sun. although the sound quality of this format is poor, the compressio ratio is high thus
giving quite small file.  it is used for recording short speech.
• AIFF (.aiff) was developed by Apple for music and high quality sound.