[IxDA Discuss] Where has the music gone?

[Todd Moy]

>From my experience, the music has migrated to myspace. Per Ben's
point, myspace lowers the barrier for novice publishers to embed music
widgets. For anyone who thought the design abuses of the early web
(mid music, blink tags, and the ilk) had gone the way of the dodo,
know that it's just as rampant albeit more "contained".

Music can be used effectively, but like everything else, you need to
be sure it really matches the user's expectation. Movie sites, games,
etc. are plausible contexts, but most people don't want to hear IBM's
rally cry < http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/music/music_clips.html
> if they're trying to buy a server.

-Todd

On 2/1/07, Ben Hopkins <benchh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the main practical obstacle to successfully adding music to a site
> is lack of support for it in HTML, necessitating embedded controls that
> don't usually have anything to do with the actual content of the site.  Also
> audio files will reload and start over when you navigate to a different page
> unless you're stuck in a frameset or some other content-irrelevant hack.
> This is one thing that Flash seems to do pretty well, particularly in terms
> of seamlessly syncing sound clips with actions/events.
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