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There is nothing worse than a web site that plays music at you automatically. Please quit it, especially if you want to sell me something! I'm not going to hang around long enough to buy it.

Hear, hear! Those sites that blatantly invade my audio space aren't revisited except under very extenuating circumstances. And then I'll mute them as fast as I can find the button.

It is curious that some musicians who should know better do this. It is especially irritating when the same darn piece starts over again every time you go back to the home page.

As a side note, there are aspiring commercial photographers who insist on running a sequence of images as their website opens. If they knew anything about marketing they would be aware that any competent art director/art buyer who encounters this will immediately leave the site.

Hup

When I posted this, I had been about halfway or so through the first movement of Mahler 6, when the violins and oboes are thinking about what comes next. I went to this web site, and some d***amn gung ho march jumped into the middle of it. Ugh. It was really aggravating.

When I built my site I had the option to add music but I chose not to as I felt the same. It makes the site load slower and it is a distraction.

talleyrand wrote:There is nothing worse than a web site that plays music at you automatically. Please quit it, especially if you want to sell me something! I'm not going to hang around long enough to buy it.

We actually shot the idea of having music play when you enter our orchestra's website at our last board meeting. Yes, the majority of board members (who are not musicians) hate that as well.

This subject is definitely worthy of a "Batman slap".

I find most of the stuff that takes up bandwidth... including music and all that silly 'twirly stuff' to be very annoying. I even confine my 'for sale' pages to text only since I realize that there are some folks out there who still have to use dial-up services.

The advertising on the front-end of news stories also makes me want to scream!

I'm ready to dump Yahoo for everything. For the 'news and features' sections, they have stopped providing text content and it moves right to video (with an ad before content).

bloke wrote:
How do you expect to play "Victory in Jesus" in the 1st Baptist church @ the 8:30 A.M. rehearsal if you're still bumping around the house in the wee hrs?

So, that was supposed to be "Stairway to Heaven". Hmmm... Couldn't have figured that one out from the cluses. However, I admire the enthusiasm.

What always frustrates me is when I've been listening to music (so I have the volume up pretty loud) I go to the website expecting complete silence, then BAM! the music comes out of nowhere and scares the crap out of me.
Not to mention I live in the country and thus have really slow, limited internet and the unwanted music just makes it worse.

TubaTinker wrote:The advertising on the front-end of news stories also makes me want to scream!

On the other hand, it provides an excellent gauge for my interest in the story the ad delays. If I REALLY am interested in the story and there's no 'Skip Ad' button I might just sit through it...MIGHT. Otherwise I'm outa there, too. What galls me more than anything is encountering such ads on sites where I have already paid a subscription to view the content. That's unconscionable.

The thing I hate about Yahoo and YouTube is when you can't skip the advertisment after 5 seconds.It's like they're ging to make you watch it.When that's happens I usually delet the page and move on to something else. I cancel my membership with Daily Motion cause I got tire of the commercials every time you load a video and I'm thinking about canceling YouTube as well.