Using Music on website

[harry]

What you think, whether an entertainment site should use music on it. How many of you would like to hear music while surfing ?

[Pumazooma]

I think that would depend on whether the visitors could turn it off and how many songs you have in the loop.

Also some people on slow connections or with low bandwidth caps won't like doing it.

Personally I hate music on web sites. The first thing I do is look for the off switch. If there isn't one, the close option does the trick and I never go back.

[kev woodman]

God not music. I remember when you used to come across sites all the time with music on and it's bloody awful. There are so many reasons not to my fingers would start to bleed if I tried typing them all. Just one personal reason - I listen to music all the time while I work and play on my pc - the last thing I want is someone elses taste in music interrupting me - and one practical one - if you include any copyrighted material on your site you need to have permission from the owner and for mainstream music that's going to cost you. As an example I had to use an 11 second music clip from Franz Ferdinand recently and the licence for 12 months cost £1700 - thankfully I didn't have to pay it myself.

[Administrator]

True.

I hate webpages which force you to listen their music. I prefer to listen to music that goes with my mood and hearing a sad song on website makes you pull your hairs when you are busy with some business on web.

Musci is life. Dont play with it.

[paul]

Same here, I emmediatly close the webpage that start with music. harry, even for an entertainment site you should not force the viewers for music, let them choose the music that they want to listen from the categories.

[Pumazooma]

Originally Posted by kev woodman

As an example I had to use an 11 second music clip from Franz Ferdinand recently and the licence for 12 months cost £1700 - thankfully I didn't have to pay it myself.

I thought you were allowed to use up to 30secs without any payment needed.

[kev woodman]

Absolutely not mate - for public broadcast in the UK anyway - there's not even a Fair Use policy here.

[Peter]

If you wish to add music to an entertainment site or any site make sure you have a 'turn off' option too, majority of the people prefer to listen to their choice music on their pc and if the website's music interrupts in between, it becomes annoying. Not having a 'turn off' would turn off the visitors from your site.

[sanderson]

This somehow suggests it's not a bad idea to put music to an entertainment site with a "turn off" option. So visitors have choice to listen or not to... Though I found that not many sites have music on their sites.

[Pumazooma]

I think the thing is that if you wanted to listen to music while you surfed you'd just stick your own on in the background with itunes or WMP or whatever. Unless the music that's playing is your particular taste it's just plain annoying.

[NordComputer]

i think it`s good to listen to music when viewing a site

[kev woodman]

I love listening to music while I surf the Web - my own music.

[harry]

Guys, if we provide, a choice for music to our visitors and play accordingly then there are chances of longer and regular visits of our targeted visitors, resulting in gaining business and popularity.Thus we can help our visitors to listen to their favorite music without switching to itunes or WMP etc

[kev woodman]

Great idea in principle but how do you do that legally. Setting aside bandwidth issues you are suggesting paying for a licence to play a wide selection of music, on demand, to your visitors. Sounds like a very expensive way to generate traffic. And would you really visit a site more just because you could play a track you liked on it? I doubt it - if you liked the track that much you would already have it and just play it on your own machine.