Embeded MP3s in HTML

Hey guys,

I'm just doing a task for class where I need to have audio files playing on a wepbage. I got the midi file working fine, using:

<embed src="int/boa.mid" controller="false">

and the mpg playing fine also:

<embed src="int/clock.avi" loop="false"></embed>

Now my problem lies with the mp3 I need to do. I have my own webserver running on my linux machine (Apache) and I'm think that I need to changed, add a setting in there cause when the page loads it asks to download the file:

<embed src="int/untitled.mp3" controller="false">

I have done a little modifing with no luck, and I conclude it's the webserver, causethe page runs fine locally.

So i'm asking if anyone know what setting to add/change or is there a way around it using the code.

Thanks for any response.

im not 100% sure about this but i think the only music files you can play are midi and wav files

i think it works if u embed the windows media player thing. then you can make that invisible

heres the code i use. put it in the body

<object classid="clsid:6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" id="WindowsMediaPlayer1">
<param name="URL" value="Untitled.mp3">
<param name="rate" value="1">
<param name="balance" value="0">
<param name="currentPosition" value="0">
<param name="defaultFrame" value>
<param name="playCount" value="1">
<param name="autoStart" value="-1">
<param name="currentMarker" value="0">
<param name="invokeURLs" value="-1">
<param name="baseURL" value>
<param name="volume" value="50">
<param name="mute" value="0">
<param name="uiMode" value="invisible">
<param name="stretchToFit" value="0">
<param name="windowlessVideo" value="0">
<param name="enabled" value="-1">
<param name="enableContextMenu" value="-1">
<param name="fullScreen" value="0">
<param name="SAMIStyle" value>
<param name="SAMILang" value>
<param name="SAMIFilename" value>
<param name="captioningID" value>
<param name="enableErrorDialogs" value="0">
</object>

would that not only work on windows based computers if your using internet explorer?

Its not a good idea to get your website so it only works on 1 browser, unless your getting 90% + of your users using IE and windows

yeh but he said its a task for class. hopefully he's on windows and running internet explorer

ah if thats the case then i suppose it should be ok, but id just use a midi file instead if its not really that important

Ahh thanks guys.

I tried it in class and it worked with what I originally had, so i'm not sure whether the teacher has apache setup differently or wether it's some setting in IE.

Either way what I had worked.

Thanks for the replies!