Expert: John W. Watson - 10/23/2004

Question
hi, im very frustrated. i have an account on xanga (www.xanga.com) and i really want to put music on my site, and i have the code for a drop menu of music (ill put the code at the bottom) and i dont know where to get urls for the songs... and i was wondering, if i can put music from my computer onto my site? and if so can you tell me how? and if not d you know where i can get urls for the music?

thankyou!
~~levi.


-----------code-------------

<object id="darkplayer" codeBase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701" type="application/x-oleobject" height="0" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." width="0" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95">
<param NAME VALUE>
<param NAME="ShowControls" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="ShowStatusBar" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="ShowDisplay" VALUE="0">
<param NAME="DefaultFrame" VALUE="Slide">
<param NAME="Autostart" VALUE="1">
<param NAME="Loop" VALUE="True">
</object>
</p>
<form name="form">
<p style="text-align: center">
<select style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF; WIDTH: 160; COLOR: #00000; font-face: verdana; height:174" name="playlist" size="1">
<option value="0">TITLE - ARTIST</option>
<option value="1">TITLE - ARTIST</option>
<option value="2">TITLE - ARTIST</option>
</select><br>
<input TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="darkplay" VALUE="play" OnClick="play(document.forms['form'].playlist);">
<input TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="darkpause" VALUE="pause" OnClick="document.darkplayer.pause(); playstate=2;">
<input TYPE="BUTTON" NAME="darkstop" VALUE="stop" OnClick="document.darkplayer.stop(); playstate=2;"></p>
</form>


<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var playstate = 1;
shuffle = 1;  // set to 0 to always play first song in list
              // set to 1 to randomly choose the first song to play
  // unlimited songs, just copy and paste the song line and change the number
songs=new Array();
songs[0]="SONGURL HERE"
songs[1]="SONGURL HERE"
songs[2]="SONGURL HERE"

if (shuffle == 1) {
var randsg = Math.floor(Math.random()*songs.length);
document.darkplayer.FileName = songs[randsg];
document.darkplayer.scr = songs[randsg];
document.forms['form'].playlist.options[randsg].selected = true;
}
function play(list) {
if (playstate == 2) {
document.darkplayer.Play();
} else {
var snum = list.options[list.selectedIndex].value
document.darkplayer.FileName = songs[snum];
document.darkplayer.scr = songs[snum];
}
playstate = 1;
}
//-->
 </script>

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Answer
levi.-

In order to have music on a standard website you have to upload the file to the server and then have a hyperlink that links to it.  I don't think xanga.com is a standard webserver after looking at the website.  You will probably have to check with them about the music.