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background music on some web pages not playing. Why?

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  • Last reply by cor-el

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background music on web site below plays in internet explorer, but not in mozilla firefox web page below.

http://www.jacarst.com/chs613.htm

Kindly resolve.

roger

background music on web site below plays in internet explorer, but not in mozilla firefox web page below. http://www.jacarst.com/chs613.htm Kindly resolve. roger

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That web page tries to play a midi file (town2.mid) via BGSOUND.
If a website uses BGSOUND then it will only work in IE.
BGSOUND is not compatible with other browsers like Firefox.

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I really can't be bothered waiting for ever for FF 4 people to fix the crashing Quicktime problem. Who ever heard of a browser not being able to play embedded midi music? I tried to associate other players, but FF 4 won't have it! What hold has Quicktime got over Mozilla, now?

Modified by Edwardous

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You should be able to play midi files with the Windows Media Player if you use a MIME type that the WMP plugin supports like type="application/x-mplayer2"