How to Record Background Music

If you have a website or a social networking profile on MySpace, you can add background music to your page so that when users visit your page they can listen to the music of your choice while they browse your page. Some websites like MySpace allow you to add music from their website to your page, but sometimes you can’t find the song that you want. No need to worry because you can record background music on your computer and then upload and implement the music you want to your page with the appropriate HTML code.

Things You'll Need

• Audio editing program
• Audio file
• File host
• Background music HTML code
• Website

Instructions

1. Open your audio editing program (See Resources 1 and 2 for audio editing program download sites), and then locate the audio file that you want to record as background music for your website or profile. (You can locate an audio file on the Internet or use one that is saved on your computer. If you have one saved on your computer, it is probably saved in your “My Music” folder.)

2. Click the “Record” button in your audio editing program, and then click “Play” on the audio file that you want to record as your background music. Let the song play until you’ve recorded the section that you want to use as your background music. Then click the “Stop” button in your audio editing program, and then stop the audio file as well. Click the “Save As” button in your audio editing program and save the background music.

3. Upload your background music to a file host (See Resources 3 and 4 for file hosting websites). Then copy and paste the following background music HTML code into your website or profile, replacing the section that says “URL” with the URL to where your background music is hosted:

   <embed name="background music"

   src="URL"

   loop="false"

   hidden="true"

   autostart="true">

   </embed>

Tips & Warnings

• If you want the user to be able to control whether the music plays when they visit your page, then simply change the hidden attribute from “true” to “false” and a music player will appear on your page.

• In order for your background music to play, the background music file must be hosted on the Internet.

References

• Quackit: HTML Background Music Code

Resources

• Total Recorder
• Audacity
• MediaFire
• FileDen