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− | + | Did you ever visit a website that, not long after the page finishes loading, suddenly plays a song? It's annoying to you, but if others are near your vicinity you will get attention by them and they will look at you. | |
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− | + | The five seconds to stop the music (finding the "pause"/"stop" button, muting the computer audio...) is a long time in this incident. | |
− | The title text refers to the fact that pages | + | Since {{w|MySpace}} allows wide customization for members pages, embedded music players running automatically have been a widely used feature. |
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+ | The title text refers to the fact that old pages, back to the 90th, used embedded {{w|MIDI}} files. They did produce a really bad sound. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Computer screen showing a myspace page.] | :[Computer screen showing a myspace page.] | ||
− | :Oh man, you and everyone in earshot are gonna | + | :Oh man, you and everyone in earshot are gonna '''<u>love</u>''' the first five seconds of this song! |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |
Revision as of 21:28, 22 July 2013
Myspace |
Title text: It's like they got together and said 'what do we miss most from the internet in 1998? that's right, embedded MIDI!' |
Explanation
Did you ever visit a website that, not long after the page finishes loading, suddenly plays a song? It's annoying to you, but if others are near your vicinity you will get attention by them and they will look at you.
The five seconds to stop the music (finding the "pause"/"stop" button, muting the computer audio...) is a long time in this incident.
Since MySpace allows wide customization for members pages, embedded music players running automatically have been a widely used feature.
The title text refers to the fact that old pages, back to the 90th, used embedded MIDI files. They did produce a really bad sound.
Transcript
- [Computer screen showing a myspace page.]
- Oh man, you and everyone in earshot are gonna love the first five seconds of this song!
Discussion
It should be noted that MIDI files don't necessarily have terrible sound quality, they are just a lossless wrapper around a music sheet. The player therefore is where the sound quality is the issue. 108.162.217.23 19:23, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Not sure (because this machine has no audio, and I'm accessing an archive of the site) but the Yvette's Bridal Formal site was always an examplar of... well, loads of things, but definitely including music. Bagpipe music one page, IIRC. Anyway, it had disappeared, last time I checked, but I have the link http://web.archive.org/web/20110718150459/http://yvettesbridalformal.com/ (might need to be better URLified with %3A%2F%2F or whatever it needs in there) that at least gives the visual... experience? 178.98.31.27 00:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
Could this also describe the fact that often only samples of a few seconds (usually more than 5, though) are available? --Chtz (talk) 11:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
I still get thrown back, when I hear the song that my first girlfriend had on her Myspace profile in 2007-2008, as I visited it regularily and the song became heavily connected to her. The profile was abandonend at some point in 2008 but still exists, including clichee smooching photos of us. I am not sure if the autoplay also still works. --Lupo (talk) 08:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)