Keep music playing on all pages?

Hi
I currently have an mp3 file playing on the home page of a restaurant website ( I know and agree with the anti-music-on-web-pages movement, but it was a client's call, so please spare me.) using the <embed> tag. How do I get the music to play continuously as visitors navigate through pages of the website?

Please and thanks

The only way is with frames. Set a left and right frame set, make the left frame set 1px wide by 100% height.

Embed the music in this left frame set (overflow hidden). Music will play while content in right frame changes.

If the clients only requirement for the site is for the music to play the whole way you could make the whole site in flash ... Limits audience and search-ability of page though.

The way that this is done on most modern sites (for example facebook) is that the entire site is designed to load through Ajax and NOT through normal links. Of course this requires Ajax (Javascript) is enabled/working, but for most people this will be the case-- though not all. Others will just reload everything each time.
This means that everything is difficult to setup because you are constantly requesting and serving partial pages then dealing with them in Javascript and it will be difficult to program. But then on facebook you can keep chat windows open while loading other pages.

Of course the non-Javascript alternative to this is using frames which would make your job a lot easier. The downside to that is using frames, and the problems that come with frames. (Very few technical issues, really, just that they are annoying to work with/use.)



Be aware that this approach is basically the opposite of how the web is designed: mainly, whole pages are supposed to be loaded, and secondarily small portions of pages can be loaded dynamically. Instead, you (and others) are attempting to load dynamically almost ALL of the page, except one part while leaving that static. It's technically possible using the same methods but much more complex and not standardized so it won't be easy.

I don't recommend that. As a Flash user I love the idea, but talk about more problems than it's worth. Trying to sync the music with each menu button click, or link click.. Its a huge hassle.

<edit> Didn't see djr's post prior...

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Originally Posted by djr33

Be aware that this approach is basically the opposite of how the web is designed: mainly, whole pages are supposed to be loaded, and secondarily small portions of pages can be loaded dynamically. Instead, you (and others) are attempting to load dynamically almost ALL of the page, except one part while leaving that static. It's technically possible using the same methods but much more complex and not standardized so it won't be easy.

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Ahh, if only I hadn't removed the one I had that way. It was very simple. It worked and validated, and there were no browser issues.

Perhaps I will make it again. It was so super simple. ALMOST made me like frames. Almost.

It's not possible that there were no browser issues-- it may be compatible with all browsers, but if Javascript is disabled everything gets messy. But I'd like to see a framework that works well for that.


More importantly, here's an easy way to do this:
launch the music player in a popup window (or just new window if Javascript is disabled for 'popups' specifically), then the user can operate your site and music independently. (Of course you can offer the user a choice to keep it in the window or launch as a popup if you'd prefer that.)

There wasn't any javascript involved. That's my point :)

When I get a free moment from school and work I will redo it. I may even have a back up copy I can just re-upload. I will check.

What's the main approach to it, if you aren't using frames and you aren't using Javascript?

We must have crossed somewhere. It is using frames, same method as my first post here. No JS though.

Oh, "almost made me like frames", I read as "almost ... like frames". Anyway....

Ok, that would work then.