Music on the forum!

[Droolie]

Hello,

I found a way to put music on the main page of a forum...

Here, I copied the whole thing... :

Okay, log in as an admin. Go to your Administration Panel.

Then, "Forum Admin" -->> Management.

Okay, now, select "Edit" on your first forum (forum, not category). Make sure it's your first forum, because this loads first (for dial-up, I know, I have personal experience). Don't worry about the fact that it's your first forum, the code'll be hidden.

Okay, now that we have that part done, upload your music file. I've heard that Google offers free hosting, but I don't know how large, or what the max file transfer size is. I also know that Yahoo Briefcase (http://briefcase.yahoo.com) lets you do some online hosting, up to a max of 30MB, but again, I don't know the max file transfer limit (I personally use MIDI's, so I don't have to worry about large music files).

Well, once you've uploaded your music, get the URL of it. That's the URL that you would enter if you wanted to download the music DIRECTLY.

Now, along with the music's absolute and direct URL, and the Admin panel in the correct area, we're ready.

Make sure that HTML is allowed on your board (though I don't know if this would actually make a difference, haven't tested it, but I will soon), via this -->> Admin Panel -->> General Admin -->> Configuration -->> User and Forum Basic Settings -->> Allow HTML. Make sure the radio button is on "Yes".

Now, back on the editing your forum area, paste this code into the "Description" box:

<embed src="ENTER YOUR MUSIC URL HERE" hidden="true" border="0" width="310" height="45" autostart="true" autoplay="true" loop="true" volume="100%">

By the way, do I really have to tell you where to paste your music URL? Please say no.

Once that is done, confirm your changes and now you have music playing!

By the way, your music will only work on the index page. I am just starting to learn BB coding, so if I find a code to embed music into your pages, I'll make sure to let ya' know! Until then, happy foruming!

EXTRA!

Okay, now that we've established that music does indeed play, let's examine the code a little more.

<embed src="MUSIC URL" hidden="true" border="0" width="310" height="45" autostart="true" autoplay="true" loop="true" volume="100%">


Appearance
If you change the word "true" to "false" after "hidden", then a music control will appear on your forum, in whichever forum you placed the coding in. This will enable your users to start and stop the music. Please note that if your users are on dial-up, the controls may not show up for quite some time, after everything on your page has loaded (not good )

Now, when it's visible, the border, width and height options can all be edited to change the appearance of the controller.

Autostarting
If you want your music to start immediately once your page has loaded, make sure that the "autoplay" has the value of "true". If you want to make it so that your visitors must push a button to start it, make sure that the value is "false". (If you have this value set to "false" and you don't have the controller visible, your viewers can't start the music, and won't even know there's an option! Don't forget&#33

Looping
If you want your music to repeat over and over, make sure the "loop" value is "true". If you want it to play once, then stop, change the value to "false".

Volume
Add the percentage of the volume that you want it to play. 100% is the loudest, and 1% is almost Muted.


PS~ A site that I use to host my MIDI's is: http://www.ripway.com

Drolpiraat

PS... I did it on my forum:
bargames.10.forumer.com ( dutch )

[Jona]

lol, if I listen to music already, I just download songs and play them...

[Droolie]

You can make a PC-theme song!

[Xenon]

Sounds like a good idea. If Hunch will do this is quite a different matter.

[th3()ne]

RAMMSTEIN
eh, Hunchman? lol

[Ogre]

Ryan is good at composing midi stuff. And good idea you have, Drolpiraat.

[Droolie]

It can be mp3, wav, mid, and more!

[Hunchman801]

This text is made for people who can't modify their phpBB files Allowing HTML is dangerous and hardly disadviced!! Pirate-Community was once hacked because of that.
You just have to modify templates/template_directory/overall_header.tpl, and you can setup all parameters if you add new inputs in admin/admin_config.php (and then new inserts in phpbb_config), which give values for parameters to includes/page_header.php!
I may add some music, but it would be far better than that. Users would have choice, and could of course disable it.

[th3()ne]

When you save an HTML file, you can use either the .htm or the .html extension. We have used .htm in our examples. It might be a bad habit inherited from the past when some of the commonly used software only allowed three letter extensions.

With newer software we think it will be perfectly safe to use .html.

[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[th3()ne]

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[Phoenixan]

For those of us who play music already. lol

...and... I like it when people use midis for their site music.. because... my internet connection is crappy. _ _

[th3()ne]

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[Xeiqu]

Ryan is good at composing midi stuff. And good idea you have, Drolpiraat.

Steady, Ogre 0_o.

Come to think of it, I do actually have a composition of the Rayman 2 theme tune, if Hunch wants it.