[How to] Musical Control Panel

[ixnay]

If you didn't know, you can do a bunch of cool things with your Apolyton notepad. I managed to set it up so that my control panel plays the Benny Hill theme any time I use it. I'm sure you're dying to know how exactly to do this as well. It's incredibly easy:

Simply put the following in your notepad:

<embed src="stick an address here" loop="true" height=0 width=0> 

Just replace the "stick address here" with the address to any sound file (wav, midi, or mp3), and save your notepad. Your control panel should now automatically play music.*


* Note: ixnay37 is not responsible for any damage done to your control panel. Do this stuff at your own risk

[Rasbelin]

Seems to be working.

[kill9]

Hi there --

Curious if you'd be able to kindly take out that link, by chance. That midi in question happens to be hosted on my webspace, and bandwidth doesn't really come cheap these days.

This is definitely a neat idea, actually, but if you're going to do it, please make sure you've got the sound file hosted on your own webspace.

Thanks much...

[Skanky Burns]

It would be a good idea to change the address, Ix.

[DrSpike]

Hehe Ixnay, that guy created a login just to scold you

If he becomes a regular poster you can take the credit though.

[Asher]

He probably checked the referrer logs for the spike in traffic.

[Rasbelin]

Well, anything that is posted here seems to create extra traffic. Especially the trick by Markos to get people to the web based chatroom with the topic "See Anna Kournikova naked, get instructions here."

[Alex]

Why would I want a musical control panel? I already play my own music when I'm surfing on Poly.

EDIT: I mean, I play my favorite CDs and MP3s.

[ixnay]

Sorry about that. Fixed now.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Actually, if you have the file on your HD, it still works-- just get the path right.

[kill9]

Hahaha.

I noticed my logs showing the Benny Hill theme being referred by user control panels on a web forum, and thought, "huh?"

Anyways, it's cool, and thanks for taking care of that. I turned referrer checking on for most of my site so it probably wouldn't work now anyways.

But, as a previous poster did say, you can use a "file://c/whatever/bennyhill.mid" link too, and that'd also work.

[DrSpike]

Now you are here, stay, play some civ, spam the OT.

[Alex]

Yes, kill9. Join the Dark Side.

[FrustratedPoet]

If in doubt, blame Ixnay.

[FrustratedPoet]

erm .... guys?

what if some amazingly stupid person tried to do this, but mis-typed the path name and so when he opens his control panel he gets an error pop-up telling him he's a **** and the embedded code doesn't appear in the notepad when he tries to edit it?

has this fool just completely FUBARed his control panel? is there a way to view the embedded code and delete it?

erm ... I'm just asking this out of curiousity .... purely hypothetically you understand ....