<bgsound src="../sounds/midi/p_presto.mid" balance=0 delay=0 loop=-1 volume=0>
Introduction to HTML
Audio
Background Embedded Audio Files
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In place May 27, 2000.

Playback of audio files in the background of a website to be viewed using either the Internet Explorer browser or the Netscape browser is accomplished with both the <BGSOUND> command placed within the <HEAD> Document Segment and the <EMBED> command within the <BODY> Document Segment as shown below -

Internet Explorer Component
in the Document Head Segment 		Netscape Component
in the Document Body Segment 
<HEAD>

  <NOEMBED>
    <BGSOUND 
     src="../sounds/midi/p_presto.mid" 
     balance=0 delay=0 loop=-1 volume=0>
  </NOEMBED>

</HEAD>
 
<BODY>

  <EMBED 
   src="../sounds/midi/p_presto.mid" 
   autostart=true hidden=true volume=75 loop=true>

</BODY>

Yields -

Toccata in A, Presto by Paradisi playing in the background.

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