An HTML music player is a container on a website that plays music or audio, and can be two-button or a console with cross-browser support. There is no specific tag for this function, but an embed tag is used. The programmer can choose to start the audio manually or automatically, and there are visible and invisible formats. Initially, the player had different encodings for each browser, but eventually gained cross-browser support.
A HyperText Markup Language (HTML) music player is a container embedded in a website that plays music or audio. The HTML Music Player is just an embed tag that can be used for videos and plug-ins as well. Depending on the encoding, an HTML music player can be two-button or an entire console with play and pause buttons and a progress bar. Unlike other HTML tags, Music Player has cross-browser support so that it can work on all major Internet applications, although the encoding for each browser was different. A programmer can also set the audio to start when someone enters the website, or he can allow the visitor to start the audio manually.
As of 2011, there is officially no HTML music player, because there is no specific tag for this type of function. Instead, when someone uses an embed tag to post a music or audio file to a website, the website shows a small or large console playing the file. This same tag is used to embed movies and plug-ins.
An HTML music player comes in two visible formats: two buttons and a full console. If the user makes it two-button, then there are start and stop buttons. With a console, there’s a progress bar, monitor buttons, and start and stop buttons. There is a third type of music player, invisible, which does not allow the user to control whether the audio file will play.
When the HTML music player was first created, it didn’t have cross-browser support, meaning that the encoding for each browser had to be a little different. The programmer also had to enter information about the player so that the website would know which software to open to play the audio file, depending on the file format. This music player eventually gained cross-browser support and the need for various codes to achieve the desired effect disappeared.
Typically, when an HTML music player is used, the programmer allows the user to choose whether they want to play the file. While this is common, the programmer can also choose to play the file when the visitor opens the website, so they have to listen to the music or audio. If the music player is made invisible, the only way to play the audio file is to autostart.
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