Mitzrah's Get IT Right Column!! Random MIDI Selector/Player Updated : Friday, August 07, 1998

• 3 MIDI files :
  • 1.mid,
  • 2.mid and
  • 3.mid then

You can fill up your JAVAscript as follows.

This is the JAVA script, please copy and paste the JAVA script BEFORE your </HEAD> tag:

<script language="JavaScript">

var nummidi = 3
day = new Date()
seed = day.getTime()
ran = parseInt(((seed - (parseInt(seed/1000,10) * 1000))/10)/100*nummidi + 1,10)

if (ran == (1))
midi=("1.mid")

if (ran == (2))
midi=("2.mid")

if (ran == (3))
midi=("3.mid")

browserName = navigator.appName
browserVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion)

if (browserName == "Netscape"){
    document.write('<EMBED SRC= "' + midi + '" AUTOSTART="TRUE" LOOP="1" HIDDEN="TRUE" VOLUME="100%">');
}
else{
    document.write('<BGSOUND SRC= "' + midi + '" LOOP="1" VOLUME="100%">');
}

// --></script>

• Your visitor's browser will not encounter any problems using this script and if you need to add more MIDI files, just add more of these lines:
  if (ran == (4))
  midi=("4.mid")
  And remember to increase the var nummidi = 4
  
• If you have just ONE file, you can delete off the entries for files 1 and 2 and it will still work.

Erm.. that's it, you now know how to make midi files play, you can also use .wav files, but hey, they are pretty big!

Additional things you should know:

1. You can change the "TRUE" or "FALSE" parameters to suite your needs.
2. You can add controls="smallconsole" to the <EMBED> tag to show the small console with the play and stop buttons. If you choose to use this, please remove the HIDDEN="TRUE" tag.
3. You can also specify the size of your console like if you want the volume, stop and play buttons you add the following to the <EMBED> tag : width="190"  height="20" controls="smallconsole"
4. You can change loop="true/infinite" to loop="#" where # is any number you like. Hint: Some visitors do not like the same thing playing over and over and over. Some web masters say that MIDI is a turn off and should be abandoned.

MIDI Links:

	This is my MIDI collection - All are high quality MIDIs which I often use!
	http://www.midifarm.com - A lot of MIDIs can be found here.
	http://www.midi.com - Also a great number of MIDI files here!

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