Archer Music Info
Archer's Music Info



OK.... This is a music page without music. *giggle*

This page is for you to understand music,
how to operate the "Crescendo Player"
and provides the commands to make music (midi files) an option when someone visits YOUR page.

To play music on my pages (your option),
you simply click on the "Click Here" section.
(on the pages where I have included music)

The following is an example and
THIS one will not load or work. *giggle*
You can click on this one ALL you want *giggle*.

Your Choice to Listen to the Music or Not
If music is playing from the prior page, close it first !!!
Click Here to play Music
Click the above to play music which will open a 2nd browser.
Close this 2nd MUSIC browser BEFORE you go to the next page.

On my other pages, when you click on the above,
a Second Browser opens and
the music should load and start playing
(if you have the proper hardware and software.)

Then go back to the browser
that you loaded the music from
and browse and enjoy.

The key to using music on my pages is simple.
DO NOT TRY TO LOAD A 2nd MUSIC FILE
WHILE THE FIRST ONE IS PLAYING.

I could have put automatic loading music on each page,
but I did not want the load time to slow you down
if you only want the "meat and potatoes" of my HP.

PS - There is no music on my links pages
(Romantic and Sportsman pages)


To hear music on Home Pages
two things are needed....

• A puter that has the proper system software
and the mechanical hardware including a speaker.

and

• A browser (such as Netscape) usually with added music software.


You can obtain the extra software
on the net.

You simply include things called

"plug-ins"

to listen to music (a "midi" file)

There are other plug-ins
used to view video, certain animation, etc.

So Archer ....
where do I get these MUSIC "plug-ins"?

First make sure you have the hardware
to support music.
(I can not help you here)

There are many fine audio plug-ins.

I find Crescendo
to work just fine on my MAC.

Crescendo software
is available from a company called
LiveUpdate division of LABTECH

You can get the plug-ins by
going to their page (click below).


Bookmark my page before you go there.

Get Cresceno


Once it is installed you may or may not
be able to hear the music files.
It depends on your hardware and
your system configuration...
and..
You may need to go back to the above link
to work out any bugs with YOUR system.


and I STRONGLY suggest that
if you are creating a HP
that you DO NOT force your visitor
to listen to the music...
Make it their option
whether to listen or not.

So... if you get the
"Crescendo Player"
the pics below
should help you understand
how to use the buttons.


Common Found Crescendo (Version 2.3)


New Crescendo (Version 3.0)
but a test version... be careful...

The Visitor Choice Play Music Command.

It took me hours to seach and
find the command to make
"Music by Visitor Choice" work.
And the command is so simple.

< A HREF= "yourmusic.mid" target= "smf "> Click ME to play music < /A >

Just make sure you advise your page visitor
to close out of the prior music browser
before going onto the next.

I am STILL trying to find out
how to eliminate the step
of going back to close the prior loaded music
when you want to load new music.

If anyone knows of a different way
then PLEASE advise me by Email.

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And if you have any questions or comments,
please feel free to Email me.

Email: archer@nh.ultranet.com