Background Music

how would i give my website users a choice of what song?

[wavebird23]

I have decided to play background music while my website viewers are waiting for a live customer support agent to attend to them. I would like to give them a choice of what song they would like to listen to. Is there a script that will play different background music, depending on which song the user chooses to listen to. I have about five different songs that I would like them to be able to choose from. Thanks in advance!

[edward301]

Im begging you not to ;-(

I found this a couple of weeks ago.....
http :// www.geocities .com/koreawivesclub/index.html

unless u do a high quality mp3 in a flash file its generally a bad idea.

most internet users are usually listening 2 music mp3s radio or a tv in the background so its usually just an annoying contrast

[vkaryl]

*siiiigggghhhhh*

Talk about "90s" websiting.... NO ONE with any pretense to savvy does music anymore ----- UNLESS that one is a MUSIC PROFESSIONAL!

Sheesh.

[kevinpate]

If you really really wanna go this route you could link the selections via a drop down menu I suppose.

Personally, I wouldn't even provide the option, but hey, it's your site, not mine, so maybe my opinion ain't worth a lot on that,score,pardon the pun.

As a surfer, I wouldn't select the offered music. However, you get some props for not wanting toforce feed some tune via an autoplay, or worse, autoplay/repeat.

[Leosghost]

I rarely ever back out of sites arrived at by error cept illegals etc ..and muzac..

[percentages]

>I have decided to play background music while my website viewers are waiting for a live customer support agent to attend to them.

"Why are we waiting" would be a good offering ;)

Didn't IBM use this thread as a subject for a TV commercial 12 months ago? A group of Rock Stars trying to explain the problem wasn't the selection of background music, it was the system the company made prospects use?

[MichaelBluejay]

Well, you could have a script that simply goes to a unique page for each song (window.location=...), with each page having the song embedded and Thank You For Waiting text. That might mess up their being queued for support, though, I don't know how your support system works.

I don't like having music thrust upon me either, but I suppose as long as one of the choices that users can select is NONE that it would be okay.

[wavebird23]

Thanks for all the advice! I won't do the background music, because like you said, it may be nuisance to the viewers.