a slideshow for valentine*s day.. :)

Thanks Karen, it's a neat slideshow. :)

Happy Valentine's Day to you too.

-Sherry

Cool, excellent slideshow... I loved it. Bittersweet, too. My brother's birthday was St. Valentines day. If it works on my computer, I'll send it to his daughter. Love the song, too. Recently bought two accapella versions of From Me to You. Of the stamps I like 1985 the best.

Del Shannon Rock On

The slideshow pictures works fine on three browsers I tried on my Mac, two of them were IE and Firefox (forget the other). But the music cold only be heard using Microsoft's IE explorer. Couldn't hear it with Firefox.

The last page with envelope didn't show the first time but did the second.

Even without the sound, it's a good slide show and I sent it to my niece.

Del Shannon Rock On

It plays fine in Firefox and in Sea Monkey for me.

MSIE is broken, and ignores the MIDI type the server specifies by a file. It seems odd that "broken" means music plays, and "unbroken" means it doesn't, but you're allowed to specify what program is used for handling any given MIME type. You have none specified for MIDI files, so you shouldn't hear music. MSIE ignores your preferences and plays the music anyhow in the software IT chooses to use, even if you specify something else.

On my puter, MIDI files are assigned to RealPlayer. I have v. 10 installed, but I suspect all the current versions are pretty much the same. Click "Tools", then "Preferences". In the category pane, click on the "[+]" to the left of "Content" and "-Media Types" will appear. Click on it.

In the right pane, you can choose "Make RealPlayer my Universal Media Player" or you can opt to manually configure the media types. (If you select manual configuration, MIDI Audio (mid midi rmi) needs to have the checkbox checked. Click OK.) Click OK in the right pane, and you should be set. Close RealPlayer, close your browser, then reopen the browser and go to the page, and you should hear the music.

I can't help you with the Mac. They're supposed to "just work". When they break, you have the devil's own time, according to what I've been reading this week.

Just last week my team at Resurrection and I were joking about exactly this idea. (We support both PCs and Macs.) The Apple commercials are terribly funny, no doubt. But Apple would have you believe that their stuff never breaks.

In our parody commercial, Mac would be broken and a poor, hapless user would be striken by the question, "How do I fix this thing?" PC would answer, "I don't know." Then the user would ask, "Who DOES know?" Followed by nothing but dead silence.

http://consumerist.com/consumer/apple/dont-wait-for-a-genius-quick-drop-your-mac-and-go-235367.php

http://appianway.blogspot.com/2007/02/mac-vs-pc.html

In the 1970s, I wanted an Apple II, but couldn't afford one. In the 1980s, I wanted a Mac, but couldn't afford one. In the early 1990s, I did a lot of work with Macs. That cured me but good. WebTV was invented by Apple alumni, and it shows: a product that initially is greeted with enthusiasm despite usability problems, because it's such a great idea in theory, but the enthusiasm dies when the company gets bored and goes off to play with a different great idea with usability problems.

Your worst humiliation

is only someone else's momentary entertainment

glad you enjoyed the slide show, & thanks for the feedback.. so sorry that valentine's day is bittersweet for you, spacebeagle..

interesting info re: pcs & macs & browsers & midi files in slide shows.. when i sent the first slide show i made.. Drive-In Theatre: Night of the Living Dead .. to my son who has a mac, he told me he couldn't hear the sound at all.. i forget the code i used at that time.. i e-mailed ken dine for help since i knew he had webtv, a pc & a mac.. ken gave me a code that was audible to most, i replaced the original code with what he gave me & then my son was able to hear the sound.. i've built several other slide shows (high school reunion pics), & most of my classmates (most on pcs, some probably on macs) can see & hear them fine, but some have reported that the sound isn't continuous & plays only one time through.. haven't had the energy nor the ambition to try to narrow down & figure out who's hearing what with which though.. :)

When Paul gave us the Sho slide show coding, I built one with snow pictures. For sound I started out using the embed noembed bgsound combination but I didn't like it because the sound would only play through once on some browsers (maybe all, can't remember) or else it played once on Webtv. Webtv did change their coding as I recall so continous play was not always possible. (not sure on this again, it's been awhile).

Finally, using the Sho format, I gave up on embed noembed bgsound combo and made the mid file a clickable link. It would play once and if while watching the slide show the viewer wanted to hear the midi file again, they could click the midi play link a second or third time. ANd that worked out just fine as far as I was concerned for Webtv and computers.

But with the Sho format, it wasn't autoplay for the slideshow, it was click one picture at a time. But that was fine by me as it meant easier viewer. Not that I don't like autoplay slide shows. Because I do if I like the subject matter.
And I did like the stamp slideshow a lot. The songs played just fine on Webtv and while I had some trouble on my Mac computer, it was enjoyable on it too even if I used the "silent" browsers.

Slideshows have always been troublesome I think when it comes to having music playing. And it may be that they changed the rules coding on embed noembed bgsound on computer browsers too sometime back. I'd have to do a search on that but it seems to me I read something on that order.

Using search engines and the terms:
embed noembed bgsound autoplay
may provide some code pages, some with discussions as to how to use and what they may work with.

Del Shannon Rock On

thanks for your input on continuous sound in a slide show.. i think i will google those terms for more info..

karen :)

Karen.. loved the show and the stamps. Thanks for posting it. Thought the 1982 was very unusual but my favorites are the 2001's. I had no trouble with the music playing all the way through on my pc. Have a great day.. Barbara

Lioness

thanks for the feedback on the sound.. glad you enjoyed the slide show..

karen :)