background-music

Web Usability - Background Music

I personally loathe background music on a website. My client has opposite feelings on the subject. I added music because the customer is always right, though I'd like to revisit the subject with them. Almost everyone would agree that it is annoying and wastes precious bandwidth but are there any usability studies or a recommendation for...

iPhone Music Game Problem With Double Tapping Home Button

When the home button gets double tapped in the middle of my music game for the iPhone, a pop-up appears showing the name and artist of the song being played...how do I disable this pop-up ? I'm using the iPodMusicPlayer in MPMusicPlayerController and I don't want to have to use applicationMusicPlayer. Thanks. ...

Playing BG Music Across Activities in Android

Hello! First time to ask a question here at stackoverflow. Exciting! Haha. We're developing an Android game and we play some background music for our intro (we have an Intro Activity) but we want it to continue playing to the next Activity, and perhaps be able to stop or play the music again from anywhere within the application. What w...

Giving background music to a webpage

var musicsrc="jyothir2.mp3"; if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer") document.write('<bgsound src='+'"'+musicsrc+'"'+' loop="infinite">') else document.write('<embed src=\"'+musicsrc+'\" hidden="true" border="0" width="20" height="20" autostart="true" loop="infinite">') friends my javascript( for background music) cod...

fade in and out music while speaking a text

I have an Android application that makes use of TTS (Text to speech) API. Everything is working perfectly, but now i want to fade in/out or even stop music (in case user is playing music with prebuilt Music Player), when application speaks a text. Right now, i think both music and TTS messages are played on the same stream (MUSIC), and i...

Statistical Proof of Music's Effect on a Developer

A very simple question: Does anybody know of any good references that scientifically prove the effects that listening to various types of music while coding might have on a developer? Workplaces typically provide some sort of reference library to help their developers be more productive. Would it also be conducive to productivity if so...

A way for users to select music from their library

Hi, I am looking for a way for users to select music they want played in the background (from their library) while using my application. Not quite sure how I would implement this feature. Thanks. ...

How to mute background music in html page

Hello friends, As per clients requirement, i have added a background music to webpage. I have set the music in loop mode to play it continuous. I have used <BGSOUND> tag to play the audio. The problem here is how to implement mute button so that client can mute the playing sound. I know nowadays its a bad idea to play automatic backgrou...

Can you recommend a good Spotify playlist for developers?

We have an office sound system and most of the time it's pumping out really distracting playlists. Can you recommend or share a Spotify playlist that you listen to when you code? ...