Background music

[Fatal Dawn]

What do you think about background music for websites? Would you use background music on your website or forum?



To me one of the most unattractive things for a website or forum is background music. Whenever I visit a forum where the first thing I hear is this obnoxious background music I immediately want to leave. It also gets annoying when I have something else playing at the time.

 

[Jazzy]

Never came across a forum that has background music. If I did and didn't like the music, I would just mute it.

 

[Evil Eye]

I hate it when a site decides to make some sound on its own, so no, I wouldn't implement it myself.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Same here. I would never use it. It's obnoxious.

Never came across a forum that has background music. If I did and didn't like the music, I would just mute it.

Some websites like photobucket have autoplay advertisements which you can't mute. They do this to force you to listen to the ad until it's over.

 

[Jazzy]

Some websites like photobucket have autoplay advertisements which you can't mute. They suffer you to listen to the ad until it's over.

Is there no way to block those adverts?

 

[Katatonia]

I've never been to a forum that has background music.



BUT if I wanted to add that to my forum, it'd be some soothing jazz.

 

[Jazzy]

BUT if I wanted to add that to my forum, it'd be some soothing jazz.

Now that I would like!

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Is there no way to block those adverts?

They run ads designed to autoplay and they prevent you from closing it. Youtube does the autoplay ads but those not prevent you from closing it. Other websites force this on you although it is understandable. They rely on ads to generate revenue and keep the site up. If you mute or skip through the ads then you are not really getting the message.

 

[DrLeftover]

Can you say 'bandwidth hog' boys and girls... .... .... there I knew you could.





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[Jazzy]

They run ads designed to autoplay and they prevent you from closing it. Youtube does the autoplay ads but those not prevent you from closing it. Other websites force this on you although it is understandable. They rely on ads to generate revenue and keep the site up. If you mute or skip through the ads then you are not really getting the message.

I don't hear anything as my speakers are always off!

 

[Flurry]

I've done the background music before way back in the day. Got tired of it after awhile though.

 

[Bryd0]

Background music on a forum or website is annoying and overall a pointless feature. That's all I can say here.

 

[Evil Eye]

Is there no way to block those adverts?

There's always the AdBlock add-on for Firefox and Chrome

I didn't even know it had these ads

 

[Crusader]

A few people have it on their Tumblrs. It's like they are missing Myspace.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I used to see those music players on forum portal pages (and on the forums themselves) a lot back in the day (4+ years ago). Seems like they have died off for the most part. Seems like nowadays, simplicity is the most attractive to people.

 

[ZINC]

I really hate it because I have my speakers quite high and if it's one which auto plays I serious jump and tab my knee into the sharp parts of my desk. I've muted my browsers now though, so it doesn't happen as often!