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From: Darrell <darre...@sympatico.ca>
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:49:35 -0400
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I have a musician client who insists on having a Flash player which 
starts playing a song when the site is loaded. (I realize that the user 
should have a say in the matter, and if I didn't need the money I'd 
insist on it.)

Worse, she wants the player to play the song *continuously*, even when 
other pages in the site are visited (as opposed to the song starting 
over on every click). The only way I can think to accomplish this is to 
place the player in a frame, and I hate frames almost as much as I hate 
unrequested audio. This may simply be because I don't know that much 
about frames and have no desire to dig into them, if it's not necessary.

I simply don't have much experience with media players and would love 
some advice on whether this is possible without (or even with!) frames. 
As mentioned I already realize it's undesirable.

Many thanks in advance.