To Put Sound on your web site, you can have people:

• click on it to play in a separate window
• download the sound to their hard drive
• play "invisibly" as they view the web page

First you need software to record the sound and to figure out the input source for your sound.

Many of Apple Computers come with the program SimpleSound.

Others include SoundApp, SoundMachine, and others.

You will need to tell your computer from where the sound you will be recording is coming. On a Macintosh, you can do this in a control panel called "Sound" or "Monitors and Sound".

Choose whether the sound is coming from an external sound source (such as a tape player), a microphone, or a CD player, TV, or Video source. (use a "stereo to stereo" mini plug connected to your headphone jack and the sound import plug on the back of your Mac to record from a tape player).

Then record your sound (below using SimpleSound):

Once done, save your sound.... and then using Apple's MoviePlayer, SoundApp, SoundMachine, or another sound editor, convert the sound to an Aiff file (also, you can use sun audio sound files (.au), .wav to name a few. It's a good idea to add the .aiff (or .au or .wav) extension to the sound file's name.

In MoviePlayer choose IMPORT in the FILE menu and then, once you click on the sound file in the dialog box, the save button will change to "convert".

Click on convert and a window with a controll bar will open.

You then need to choose "EXPORT" from MoviePlayer's FILE menu and convert the sound to Aiff file. Add the .aiff suffix to the file name.

Using SoundApp, go to the FILE menu, choose "CONVERT" and then select the sound file you created...

SoundApp will create a new folder with the converted sound file in the same folder/directory containing the sound file.

Open the folder and add the .aiff suffix to the file name.

Now you can place the sound file within the folder/directory holding your web (html) pages and images.

You may create another folder/directory for the sound file or keep it in the same folder as your html files. Whatever you do, you must then stick with this placement once you link to the sound file in your web pages.

To have your users play the sound by clicking on it, go to the html source code and type <a href="nameofsoundfile.aiff"> Then the name you want to appear in your web page, and then close out the link with </a> (This would all be done in html, not in your html editor) (Also, "nameofsoundfile.aiff" = whatever your sound file name is.. if it's in a deeper folder or directory you must specify this. If it was in a folder called sounds (as pictured above) then the path name would have to reflect this. <a href="sounds/whateversoundname.aiff">Whateversoundname</a>)

If you want the sound to be embedded in the page and to play automatically, then you would use this html source code:

<EMBED SRC="start.wav" PLUGINSPAGE="http://quicktime.apple.com" controller="TRUE" loop="TRUE" autoplay="TRUE" hidden="true" autostart="true" >

If you don't want to have the sound play endlessly, then loop would equal "false". Play around with the different settings and see how they would affect the way your sound files react on your pages.

Happy sounds!!

Music is the answer!