adding sound bites to links

killerz

I have a question about adding sounds, and how to go about it. Is it possible to make it so the links in the Modules block play a sound bite when pressed?

If so; what are some of the ways of doing this?

😕

bastien

usually wav files or midi files...some simple javascript...

see the tutorial here

groovything

Put this in the body of your page (not in the <body tag>):

Put the following code in the <a> tag:

onClick="document.all.music.src='http://www.groovything.com/userWAV/laughsmall.wav';">

You can see it work here(click on the forum avatar):

http://www.groovything.com/default.php?menu=c&subM=d_f&css=06&page=forum&action=view&topicID=2

This will only work for ie as far as I know. for netscape, I just do this:

href="<? echo $WAVpath ?>" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'wav','100','100','no','center');return false" onFocus="this.blur()

looks like this:

<a <? if (eregi("MSIE",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)){ ?>style="cursor:hand" onClick="document.all.music.src='<? echo $WAVpath ?>';"<?}else{?>href="<? echo $WAVpath ?>" onClick="NewWindow(this.href,'wav','100','100','no','center');return false" onFocus="this.blur()"<?}?>><img src="<? echo $IMGpath ?>" border="0" width="60" height="60" align="right"></a>

killerz

Here's what i have done but i get no sound

bastien

think that link needs to be one statement

one of my refernce books shows it as a function that mulitple sounds can use to fire the event...the sounds are embedded, and the function creates an array to go thru and play the sound depending on which item is clicked...

note this is mainly for ie...you will need to research/play to get it to work with NN

<html><head>
<script languate="javascript">
function playnote(note){
document.embeds[note].play():
}
</head><body>
<embed src="http://killerzs.net/sounds/anvil.wav" hidden=true autostart=false>

<a style="cursor:hand"; onClick="playnote(0);" href="http://killerzs.net/mod">TEST</a>

</body></html>

the

killerz

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http://www.killerzs.net/mod

pulls hair out

groovything

bastien is right. Your link should look like this:

You may have to use onMouseOver instead of onClick because you are probably being taken to the other page before the sound gets a chance to play.

The only problem I have had with this is the delayed reaction when you try to attach sounds to links. it can be a bit confusing to the user because you cannot get an instant reaction because the sound has to be loaded.

I ended up just using it only for "signature sound bytes" that you could listen to if you click on a person's avatar image. other than that I have yet to see it done effectively other than using flash.

the only other thing i can think of to do is use a function to play the sound and then redirect after the sound is finished. I think that might not go over well with the users since they do not want to wait at all for a page to load.