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View Full Version : Embedding MP3 files to play in email? Gotara 05-10-05, 06:34 PM I need to know how to go about embedding MP3 files into email. I want emails to automatically play when the email is opened. How would I go about doing this? I know it would be similar to having background music on a web site, but I don't know how to do it for an email. Can anyone help? Michael 05-10-05, 06:39 PM You have to send the email as HTML and embedd the MP3 into the HTML with the following just make sure to start and close the tag <> MBED SRC=your_file.mp3 AUTOSTART=true HIDDEN=true LOOP=1 place it before the <body> or was it after the <body> I forget Gotara 05-10-05, 11:49 PM Thanks a lot. I just need to figure out and configure my mail client to send HTML emails...I work for a promotional company and wanted to send emails with upcoming bands on them. As soon as I update my server or website, this should work. Thanks again! Gotara Michael 05-11-05, 12:01 AM Opps its EMBED SRC=your_file.mp3 AUTOSTART=true HIDDEN=true LOOP=1 Sufian 05-11-05, 01:13 AM You know those types of emails will most likely be flagged as spam and personally, if I heard music playing when I opened an email I'd trash it. mikerm19 05-11-05, 01:22 AM It sounds like a good idea, if people wanted it. I definatly just wouldn't spam people with it though. For example, if you have a mailing list, put out a newsletter that your going to be doing this, so they cant bitch when all the sudden thier email is playing the latest NIN. I personally always hated sites with music, now if I come across a site that automatically plays music I skip right past it and never go back. It's annoying when you already have music playing and the star wars midi plays over top of it. Michael 05-15-05, 01:09 PM Man I make video emails all the time. magicmarc 06-06-05, 04:05 AM Audio emails wouldnt be a good idea for me with my sound drivers crashing my PC :S. Anyway, if the HTML works, you could always use a .swf flash file and put it in there, perhaps making it 1x1 pixels large and the same colour as the background, with the mp3 on auto play in there... That idea was taken from www.downloadmagic.com , not sure if Steve still uses that though... BadKharma 06-06-05, 07:23 AM Audio emails wouldnt be a good idea for me with my sound drivers crashing my PC :S. Anyway, if the HTML works, you could always use a .swf flash file and put it in there, perhaps making it 1x1 pixels large and the same colour as the background, with the mp3 on auto play in there... That idea was taken from www.downloadmagic.com (http://www.downloadmagic.com/) , not sure if Steve still uses that though... The actions script needed for that is alot more than the code that michael used.........but if you are good at coding I say go for it. |
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