Want Music on Your SmugMug Site?

Andy · November 16, 2006

http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/How+To+Add+Music

devbobo · November 16, 2006

wtf ?

:puke

Andy · November 16, 2006

devbobo wrote:

wtf ?

:puke

yeah it's not for everyone, but some folks really like it. Think of all the peeps that can now easily and handily do it, without any help from you, lee, or mike

Barefoot and Natural · November 16, 2006

Andy wrote:

yeah it's not for everyone, but some folks really like it. Think of all the peeps that can now easily and handily do it, without any help from you, lee, or mike

OMG... are you serious???? I am not commenting about your song Andy, I am talking about the music in general!!

OOOOO....I am so going to try this out!! Does it work throughout the entire site?

No time to chat....got to get my grooooooove on!!!

:ivar

Dna · November 16, 2006

Barefoot and Natural wrote:

OMG... are you serious???? I am not commenting about your song Andy, I am talking about the music in general!!
OOOOO....I am so going to try this out!! Does it work throughout the entire site?No time to chat....got to get my grooooooove on!!! :ivar

1. I hate sites that have music on them. I have music that I want to listen to on my computer, the music from the site clashes and sounds horrible. It also prolongs loading time. Smugmug in general is slow to load with the number of scripts and photos that have to be loaded, without adding to it.

2. If you put it in your header then it would be on every page.

3. The photo on your site is stuck in the middle of the page and the menu moves over the top of it depending on the size of the window. IE7 and FF.

Andrew

Mike Lane · November 18, 2006

God I hate music in sites.

Can we make sure this is in the customization faq

nonilady · November 20, 2006

another solution to andy's suggestion
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47487&highlight=music

hi everybody,
referring to the above,

incase anyone is interested, you can also try www.filelodge.com, its free, you can upload various music files as long as mp3 and the music files are entirely upto your collection and you can embed different music file code on different gallery and anywhere on your site.....currently i am putting my music code at the bottom of my homepage (testing)
see www.photowardrobe.com

you may also upload any sort of files i havent tried other functions but check it out!

cheers

mrcoons · November 21, 2006

I love it, a new way to annoy people!

Thanks Andy!

mrcoons · November 21, 2006

Not quite as flashy as what Andy told us about but I like to be able to use my own stuff. Thanks!

Dna · November 21, 2006

Nothing makes me close a site quicker, than unwanted music ...

Andrew

Andy · November 21, 2006

Dna wrote:

Nothing makes me close a site quicker, than unwanted music ...

Andrew

Personally, I agree. But some folks like it, and it's their option to do it

nonilady · November 22, 2006

mrcoons wrote:

Not quite as flashy as what Andy told us about but I like to be able to use my own stuff. Thanks!

andy's idea and creativity are always interesting, inspirational and flashy...:D

go andy go! go andy go

D

ellepixels · January 19, 2007

nonilady wrote:

andy's idea and creativity are always interesting, inspirational and flashy...:D go andy go! go andy go D

How do I get the music to play only on my home page and not on the entire page?

Andy · January 19, 2007

ellepixels wrote:

How do I get the music to play only on my home page and not on the entire page?

wrap it in a div in your footer html

<div id="mymusic">
all the code goes here
</div>

in css:

#mymusic {display: none;}
.homepage #mymusic {display: block;}

Pupator · January 19, 2007

Nothing makes me close a site quicker, than unwanted music ...

Heh, it doesn't bother me at all. Of course, that might be because the first site I ever visited with music caused me to unplug my "browsing" computer's speakers...

DJKennedy · January 19, 2007

Dna wrote:

Nothing makes me close a site quicker, than unwanted music ...

Andrew

I 100% totally agree

Ephemeral · January 19, 2007

Dna wrote:

Nothing makes me close a site quicker, than unwanted music ...

Andrew

What he said. When I read the title the first thing i thought of was my space...ewwwwwwwwwwww.

ellepixels · January 19, 2007

Andy wrote:

wrap it in a div in your footer html

<div id="mymusic">
all the code goes here
</div>

in css:

#mymusic {display: none;}
.homepage #mymusic {display: block;}

Tried it, im still getting it on all the pages.
What am I missing?

Andy · January 19, 2007

ellepixels wrote:

Tried it, im still getting it on all the pages.
What am I missing?

I do not think you can do it with this music service, I haven't been able to, sorry.

ellepixels · January 19, 2007

Andy wrote:

I do not think you can do it with this music service, I haven't been able to, sorry.

Thanks for your help Andy!

RKeaton · January 21, 2007

I don't know why so many people complain about websites having music. So long as muting/stopping it is quick and easy I think it's great. I say quit whining.

By the way, ever heard of MySpace? A few zillion profiles, 99% with music...doesn't seem to be driving people away. I'm no expert but something tells me websites of the future are going to have a lot going on, music included. Not just boring, static pages. So get used to it, folks.

That said, with the site Andy linked the music started over every time I clicked a different photo from that gallery, thus refreshing the page I guess. Now THAT didn't make NO sense.

SBP · April 11, 2007

NO music that I can hear
I assume you are saying to go to this site to hear the music. I don't hear anything. I'm getting closer to joining on the prosite with Smugmug but just working out some details before hand. I do want music on a bridal page I plan on creating. While I have your attention here I do like your moonriver site and was wondering what size your main photo is in pixels?

I agree that music gets really old with photos but brides like it. thanks. Sherrlyn
www.borkgren.com ---for now

you can see it here
http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195/1/76962271

So, you can of course hide it, if you give it a DIV, say, <div id="mysongspot">insertthecodeshere</div> and then in CSS you can do #mysongspot {visibility: hidden;}

Enjoy![/quote]

Andy · April 11, 2007

SBP wrote:

I assume you are saying to go to this site to hear the music. I don't hear anything. I'm getting closer to joining on the prosite with Smugmug but just working out some details before hand. I do want music on a bridal page I plan on creating.

http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195
It works. I had it off for a while, sorry.

While I have your attention here I do like your moonriver site and was wondering what size your main photo is in pixels?

600x400

Ferrisphoto · April 14, 2007

ellepixels wrote:

Thanks for your help Andy!

Just to update this...For the Sonific Songspots...You can go into the code, and change the pixel dimensions from 250 x 91 to 0 x 0, and it will get rid of the player. I did it on my homepage.

www.ferrisphotography.net

Andy · April 14, 2007

Ferrisphoto wrote:

Just to update this...For the Sonific Songspots...You can go into the code, and change the pixel dimensions from 250 x 91 to 0 x 0, and it will get rid of the player. I did it on my homepage.

www.ferrisphotography.net

But there's no way to turn it off, so many people will just leave

colourbox · April 14, 2007

RKeaton wrote:

I don't know why so many people complain about websites having music. So long as muting/stopping it is quick and easy I think it's great. I say quit whining.

For me, at least, there are several problems with web pages and music.

Like a lot of people, I have good full-range speakers hooked up, and am sometimes surfing in peace. When a page with music comes on, it tends to blast in out of nowhere, which is a jarring experience if the room was quiet. If someone is in a cubicle environment, a website with music nearly qualifies as Not Safe For Work.

Aesthetically, it had better be good music, and the longer the better, because it's really bad when a music clip is both short and annoying because then it loops like an ice cream truck, and that really starts to grate.

I surf using tabs. I'll read the front tab while the other tabs load. Occasionally I'll start to hear music in the background which has nothing whatsoever to do with the web page I'm reading, because it is actually playing in one of the tabs I opened in the background. There is then a few seconds of chaos as I flip through the tabs to determine which of those dang pages has the sound on it.

Now, I don't hate music. I LOVE music. And that leads to yet another problem. I often surf with music. I'm groovin' along to my tunes, everything's great, then I go to a web page and suddenly there is the infernal racket of some web page with a bad music loop that's playing through the same speakers at equal volume to my own music, causing a terrible sonic train wreck! If I opened it as a tab in the background, then you combine this problem with the previous paragraph and that web page achieves a whole new level of annoyance.

I'm not absolutely saying don't do this, I'm just saying be aware that there are quite a few reasons why music on a page reflects on a web page negatively to so many people. There is probably a good way to do it. Maybe fade it in, choose it carefully, test for how it sounds when it comes up out of nowhere, test its mental effect when it loops for 5 minutes straight while you browse, that sort of thing.

Audio is just as sophisticated an art form as photography, so pay the usual attention to composition, quality, context, etc. so that we can avoid creating the sonic equivalent of a MySpace background photo.

DavidTO · April 14, 2007

colourbox wrote:

For me, at least, there are several problems with web pages and music.

Like a lot of people, I have good full-range speakers hooked up, and am sometimes surfing in peace. When a page with music comes on, it tends to blast in out of nowhere, which is a jarring experience if the room was quiet. If someone is in a cubicle environment, a website with music nearly qualifies as Not Safe For Work.

Aesthetically, it had better be good music, and the longer the better, because it's really bad when a music clip is both short and annoying because then it loops like an ice cream truck, and that really starts to grate.

I surf using tabs. I'll read the front tab while the other tabs load. Occasionally I'll start to hear music in the background which has nothing whatsoever to do with the web page I'm reading, because it is actually playing in one of the tabs I opened in the background. There is then a few seconds of chaos as I flip through the tabs to determine which of those dang pages has the sound on it.

Now, I don't hate music. I LOVE music. And that leads to yet another problem. I often surf with music. I'm groovin' along to my tunes, everything's great, then I go to a web page and suddenly there is the infernal racket of some web page with a bad music loop that's playing through the same speakers at equal volume to my own music, causing a terrible sonic train wreck! If I opened it as a tab in the background, then you combine this problem with the previous paragraph and that web page achieves a whole new level of annoyance.

I'm not absolutely saying don't do this, I'm just saying be aware that there are quite a few reasons why music on a page reflects on a web page negatively to so many people. There is probably a good way to do it. Maybe fade it in, choose it carefully, test for how it sounds when it comes up out of nowhere, test its mental effect when it loops for 5 minutes straight while you browse, that sort of thing.

Audio is just as sophisticated an art form as photography, so pay the usual attention to composition, quality, context, etc. so that we can avoid creating the sonic equivalent of a MySpace background photo.

Well said!

Mike Lane · April 14, 2007

colourbox wrote:

so pay the usual attention to composition, quality, context, etc. so that we can avoid creating the sonic equivalent of a MySpace background photo.

shudders...

mhp · April 18, 2007

Andy wrote:

Check out Sonific <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/deal.gif" border="0" alt="" >

you can see it here
http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195/1/76962271

So, you can of course hide it, if you give it a DIV, say, <div id="mysongspot">insertthecodeshere</div> and then in CSS you can do #mysongspot {visibility: hidden;}

Enjoy!

Andy,
I'm a little confused on this sonific thing...I went to the site, ordered my song to use in a gallery. Where do I put the code? I pasted it in my "description" section of the gallery, but all that happened is the code showed up, but no song playing? Can you tell me what I'm missing here?
Thanks.
Robert

Andy · April 18, 2007

mhp wrote:

Andy,
I'm a little confused on this sonific thing...I went to the site, ordered my song to use in a gallery. Where do I put the code? I pasted it in my "description" section of the gallery, but all that happened is the code showed up, but no song playing? Can you tell me what I'm missing here?
Thanks.
Robert

Please help those that want to help you

We MUST have your site name, and in this case, a gallery link, to see what you've done

mhp · April 18, 2007

Andy wrote:

Please help those that want to help you We MUST have your site name, and in this case, a gallery link, to see what you've done

My mistake...gallery is: http://www.memoryhill.com/gallery/2694771/1/142717683

site is: memoryhill.smugmug.com

I figured out the link with the flash player...but is there anyway to hide it so its not visible on the page, and the music just starts automatically?

Thanks again for your assistance!
Robert

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