Embed Audio Files

[fmdeveloper]

Anyone have any experience with embeding audio files into a web page? How do search engines look at this?

[Conficio]

Hi there,
I found a pretty good tutorial for you. I only glanced over it but i t seems to discuss a lot. One thing I'm not sure it is pointed out in there: Make sure you set the mime type for your sound files correctly, so the browser know what you throw at him.

Regarding search engines, I don't know. So far they mostly ignore these things (except proper alt tags or <noembed> tags). Google and Yahoo have started video and picture search, I have not heard of sound. So use lots of relevant text around the sound, may be even a transcript if the sound contains any lyrics or speech.

Let us know what you experience ends up being.

K<o>

What exactly do you want to accomplish? Are we looking at just going to a website, and start hearing music play, or do you want to have some sort of audio controller on the site to stop and play music, etc.? I know there are some people out there that still embed audio files into a page using html scripts and what not, but frankly I find that very annoying, because most people don't know how to turn it off (even though it just means hitting the stop button on your browser....most of the time).

Give me some more details and I'll be glad to help you out.

[MarcieZoob]

I agree with Frankie - make sure you provide user controls. I'm an early morning surfer and I hate sites that have surprise music files embedded - it wakes the dog and the hubbie and then I'm in trouble.

[webhost1]

Don't use them unless your a music site. Let the user have the control of playing them or not.