RE: tlug: midi_autostart?

[yhua@example.com (Yong-Ming Hua)]

Hi all,

On Thu, 06 Nov 1997 09:45:52 +0900 (JST) 
        Totoro wrote:
>
>On 05-Nov-97 Yong-Ming Hua wrote:
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>    I got a problem. I want to autostart a song from a homepage.
>>My HTML is as follows. 
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>><P ALIGN="CENTER"><embed src="song1.mid" height=55 width=135
>> autostart=true loop=true></embed></P>
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>But this doesn't work. When I put some *.wav file into "xxxx"
>>things get all right to my sheer surprise. *.wav starts without
>>any problem.
>
>
>Netscape doesn't follow strict HTML guidelines with this kind
>of extension, so one thing is that you need to delete "</embed>"
>to clean it up. 
>Start with basics and work your way up:
>
><embed src="song1.mid">

  ...snip...

>I haven't added anything to my mime.types; it just has the normal
>"audio/midi      mid midi kar" entry, and it works fine with apache.
>

You gave me a great clue. Since I use NCSA instead of apache, I just
took a look at the online manual of apache. It says something like
"if a browser knows audio/midi, you shouldn't put audio/x-midi as it
might give a broken picture..." There is no midi entry in NCSA mime.
types. I should write something anyway. So I took a line from 
Stephen Spainhour's Webmaster, 'audio/x-midi', but it was the 
problem. So I put your type into my mime.types,

"audio/midi      mid midi kar"

and gosh everything is all right now. Great thanks to you, Totoro.


With Best Wishes,
Yong-Ming

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