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What background music to put at my site?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010.

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  1. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Hello...

    I recently found out on how to get background music on my site's frontpage.

    Now is the question, what music should I put up?

    Current: Microsoft - Windows XP intro

    Site: http://flippiemp3index.webs.com/

    Thanks.

    Also, please no tracks from artists that are already listed in the sitebar.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    none. background music is one of the most annoying things you can do on a website.
     
    Loonylion, Apr 13, 2010
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  3. msg2009

    msg2009 Romulations sexiest member

    i agree.
    its like that annoying music on your sky box when your looking whats on
     
    msg2009, Apr 13, 2010
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  4. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Oh... But users requested that...

    Like 6 users requested, but they didn't give any suggestion...
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  5. nex26

    nex26 Well-Known Member

    None.
     
    nex26, Apr 13, 2010
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  6. fdgsaoralex

    fdgsaoralex Well-Known Member

    ask those 6 users what they want to hear
     
    fdgsaoralex, Apr 13, 2010
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  7. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    They replyed "Simple music" or "Classic" and "Some intro music"
    That sort of things.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  8. fdgsaoralex

    fdgsaoralex Well-Known Member

    the best sort of thing I can think of is just some chill

    Always Returning by Brian Eno. "Simple music" or "Classic" and "Some intro music" don't really narrow down the options too much...
     
    fdgsaoralex, Apr 13, 2010
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  9. stirgo1212

    stirgo1212 Well-Known Member

    Sky Music 0wns
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBlkYiRliZA
     
    stirgo1212, Apr 13, 2010
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  10. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Thanks, that is great music.

    I can make it a bit lower volume.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  11. msg2009

    msg2009 Romulations sexiest member

    me and my big mouth :(
     
    msg2009, Apr 13, 2010
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  12. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    lol

    I've updated the site, so the background music is added.

    The volume level still needs to be adjusted, though.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  13. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Dude. Worst fucking idea EVER. I'm listening to my local music which I like and your site starts playing this horrible music on top of mine, I can't turn it off. I'm annoyed. I leave and never come back. Good job! You just alienated 99.9% of your users.

    I can't even stop it and the page wouldn't show until it had loaded 2.46 MB. What on earth made you do this? It's mind numbingly stupid.
     
    Seph, Apr 13, 2010
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  14. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    ... you can stop it at the bottom.

    but I'll delete it. Maybe I'll make an button with "Play music" or something.
    Post Merge: [time]1271190465[/time]
    Deleted...

    Now on how to get that.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  15. gaynorvader

    gaynorvader Well-Known Member

    Maybe a 5 second clip would be ok, having music constantly playing is just annoying.
    Also making it random would be better.
     
    gaynorvader, Apr 13, 2010
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  16. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    That is not createable inside an design. (I just switched to Webs Site Builder, got bored of HTML)
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  17. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    No. It would not. Try counting to 5 (start at 0!) and you have 5 seconds. Now play some music and do it again. Those 5 seconds are going to annoy the hell out of you. If you absolutely must have music then make it a flash player which will load the music when you click play, that way you keep the load time down and your host will thank you for not using all their bandwidth.
     
    Seph, Apr 13, 2010
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  18. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    I get 5 GB bandwidth, that's why I do not let users download much things...

    Also, for that Flash, I will not put any single line of Flash HTML on that homepage.
    It will mess the template up, I have read somewhere in the support forums.
     
    yoshi2889, Apr 13, 2010
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  19. gaynorvader

    gaynorvader Well-Known Member

    hm maybe 5 seconds is a tad long, a short clip when you open a site can be cool though
     
    gaynorvader, Apr 13, 2010
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  20. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Then the template is horrible. Flash is good when used in moderation, and there's no reason for it to mess up the template, it can be totally invisible.

    Music on websites *can* be used to make it awesome, but it needs to be used right and that's very rarely done, for instance, it would never work on RomUlation.
     
    Seph, Apr 13, 2010
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