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I have a musician client who insists on having a Flash player which
starts playing a song when the site is loaded. (I realize that the user
should have a say in the matter, and if I didn't need the money I'd
insist on it.)

Worse, she wants the player to play the song *continuously*, even when
other pages in the site are visited (as opposed to the song starting
over on every click). The only way I can think to accomplish this is to
place the player in a frame, and I hate frames almost as much as I hate
unrequested audio. This may simply be because I don't know that much
about frames and have no desire to dig into them, if it's not necessary.

I simply don't have much experience with media players and would love
some advice on whether this is possible without (or even with!) frames.
As mentioned I already realize it's undesirable.

Many thanks in advance.

> I have a musician client who insists on having a Flash player which starts playing a song when the site is loaded. (I realize that the user should have a say in the matter, and if I didn't need the money I'd insist on it.)

When you find out how to do it (I don't know the answer), create a site
with some music that your client does not like. Put content that your
client is interested in behind that music (such as a demo, your prices,
etc). Have the client go to that site. When the client is annoyed
enough to see the evil, you can gently break it to her that she should
re-think her concept.

Jose
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> I have a musician client who insists on having a Flash player which
> starts playing a song when the site is loaded. (I realize that the user
> should have a say in the matter, and if I didn't need the money I'd
> insist on it.)
>
> Worse, she wants the player to play the song *continuously*, even when
> other pages in the site are visited (as opposed to the song starting
> over on every click). The only way I can think to accomplish this is to
> place the player in a frame, and I hate frames almost as much as I hate
> unrequested audio. This may simply be because I don't know that much
> about frames and have no desire to dig into them, if it's not necessary.
>
> I simply don't have much experience with media players and would love
> some advice on whether this is possible without (or even with!) frames.
> As mentioned I already realize it's undesirable.
>
> Many thanks in advance.

Go ahead, use frames. Everything else is wrong, anyway. -Pathetically
wrong.

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Jose wrote:

<snip> When the client is annoyed enough to see the evil, you can
gently break it to her that she should re-think her concept.</snip>

Many thanks, Jose. But I question whether an evil person see evil? I
suspect she'd simply rationalize it...

<rationalizing>My music is really cool, so it works on my site. This
other music is just crap. Can we turn it off?</rationalizing>

Darrell wrote:

> Jose wrote:
>
> <snip> When the client is annoyed enough to see the evil, you can gently
> break it to her that she should re-think her concept.</snip>
>
> Many thanks, Jose. But I question whether an evil person see evil? I
> suspect she'd simply rationalize it...

Try bagpipe music. End of rationalization.


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Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Try bagpipe music. End of rationalization.

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Of course, I'd have to listen to it as
well, while I was developing the site...

Maybe I should just tie her up and throw her under a lorry. One might
not find this solution in any HTML tutorial, but it would sure as hell
solve the problem. And what jury would convict me?

Darrell wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Try bagpipe music. End of rationalization.
>
> Actually, that's not a bad idea. Of course, I'd have to listen to it as
> well, while I was developing the site...

Use a script to supply different music to different IP addresses.

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> <rationalizing>My music is really cool, so it works on my site. This other music is just crap. Can we turn it off?</rationalizing>

"Nope. That's the way it works."

Evil may not "see" evil, but they recognize it when it injures them.

Jose
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Darrell wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Try bagpipe music. End of rationalization.
>
> Actually, that's not a bad idea. Of course, I'd have to listen to it as
> well, while I was developing the site...
>
> Maybe I should just tie her up and throw her under a lorry. One might not
> find this solution in any HTML tutorial, but it would sure as hell solve
> the problem. And what jury would convict me?

Compared to bagpipe music, that's letting her off easy.

Q. What's the difference beetween a lawnmower and bagpipes?

Answer below spoiler space...










































A. You can tune a lawnmower.


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Q: What's the difference between a trampoline and a set of bagpipes?

A: You take your work boots off when you jump on a trampoline!