Adding Midi Files to your Webpage

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Adding midi files to a webpage is an easy way to add music without using large files such as mp3 for background music.

People email me with the question, “How do I put midi files on my page?” Here is the code of an embedded midi file I have on one of my webpages.I use EMBED src=”midifile.mid” width=145 height=30 autostart=true loop=true surrounded by brackets

midifile.mid is the name of the midi file in the same directory as the webpage. Width and height allow a console to display. If you do not want the player to display on the web page use a width and height of 1 or 2 (0 width and height has caused problems with some players.

autostart=true means the file will play automatically when the page loads. autostart=false would not start the file automatically

loop=true causes the file to play and loop, loop=false plays a file once.

There are several ways for your WWW Browser to access MIDI files (or any files for that matter) from Internet Explorer, or other browsers. In Internet Explorer, this is controlled by the “Programs” tab (under “Tools”, then “Internet Options…”). Choose “Internet Programs/Set Programs/Associate a File Type or protocol with a program. In that list, look for “.mid or .midi” in the “Name” column. For those entries, the program in the “Current Default” column determines what program will be used when you click on a MIDI file on a www page.

Also, for “zipped” files, If you have a recent version of “Winzip”, the zipped file can be played without a lot of trouble if you set up Winzip to be the application to start for .zip files. Then, you just click the mid file when Winzip show the contents, and it plays!

Oh, and another tip: If you set up your Helper Apps to “play” the midi song when selected with a particular program, you can always save it (download it) instead of playing it by right clicking on a file and using the “Save Target as” to save the file to your hard drive. That way, you don’t have to delete your “Helper apps” entry for .mid files if you want to save it or have to hunt through your Temporary Internet Files directory, to find the file (which might have a temp name, like “V0ONCDV4″ or something).

Cliff Odenkirk is a well known internet musician and midi expert at Midicity.com music and entertainment news as well as an accomplished midi musician. You can find more music news and articles at Midicity.com music and entertainment articles

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