WAAAAAAAAH THEY'RE SO ANNOYING. I love your stones, Pega. 8D

I just hope I worded this ok.

Even though I have a recent page with APM(with warning. i noted that I'd remove it if asked) and a few very old blogs that need updated, I still strongly support this notion.

It's just it was stressed so much when I took web design not to put music visitors can't stop, so I cringe whenever I see (or rather, don't see) music you can't stop. And we were told not to do it, so.. *shrug* If at least to avoid getting in trouble, there should be no auto-play.

@Madgab: Guess it's a good thing I posted this then, since you weren't aware. Others might not know either.
It's ok, though. This isn't directed at any one person. Just a general FYI.
EDIT: It should be in the coding for the music player. Look for "autoplay=true" and change it to "autoplay=false".

I'm sorry what? dealwithitplease. Not everyone is going to listen to what you want all the time.

@KingEnvy: Would you say that to Auriea, one of the creators of this game, who is the one that wrote that blog saying no auto-playing music allowed?

Is music that begins to play on its own all right if the "pause" button is visible in the post?

Edit: Found Auriea's post. Thank you! (:

Anytime there is an autoplay I want to STRANGLE the idiot who thought that was a good idea. No matter what website.

Heyy. I had mine on autoplay and i'm no idiot

I'm so glad you posted about this. But I have a question... I'm genuinely confused by this. Is autoplay music "behind the cut" an acceptable interpretation of Auriea's rule? I don't browse the site via categories, I just browse "all recent posts," so I run into music that would otherwise be hidden.

Edit: I also want to add that maybe this is simply me not understanding the new blog system...

I think putting music "under the cut" is a loophole people found.

I know a lot of my old bios STILL have the Auto-play Music on them (Because I'm honestly not in the mood to go through ALL of the players I've created for them and I'm a lazy bish XD) in my RECENT posts most of my music isn't on Auto-play.

For me, I honestly don't care about if something autoplays or not, it doesn't bother me all that much (Especially since a lot of the time I find a lot of songs I ADORE on the music players) but I understand how others would find it annoying. The only thing I find truly annoying is that sometimes the certain choices will SLOW DOWN my computer and lag it out @@;;;;;;;;;

And I've seen a few of those invisible players around. Which makes me go wtf? Why is there MUSIC but no player D=

Either or, I'm neutral on the matter since I don't care which way but I can understand the concerns for it. And for those who haven't seen the particular post about it...

{X}

It's still on the front page but you'd need to scroll down to see it. But Auriea did mention it and I've been leaning towards following what's been said there XD (Even though sometimes I do forget *sighs*)

Uhm... I'd like to remind everyone that autoplaying music isn't allowed in the summary section of the blogs, as that is what is displayed when viewing by section/categories. It isn't allowed because if everyone does that, it's just noise when you look at the category pages because there's 10+ players playing all at once. That is what the problem was and was what Auriea said was not allowed, and I quote:



Autoplaying music in the 'read more' section of the blog; that's not "not allowed", because it is undercut and therefore doesn't play when viewing sections.

The invisible players do annoy me, but I have no problem hitting pause if the music is auto-playing and the player is visible. I do understand it can be annoying for those who have limited bandwidth and a not-so-fast computer, however, but you can't please everyone! =)

Oh, Dag. Thanks for clearing that up!
It just seems the auto-play thing is personal choice, then. I think I will keep mine off, however, I do know it's annoying to be listening to other music just to have it mangled. D:
I do not have a big problem with hitting pause, but I would advise against the invisible players, that just forces me to close the blog. :c

Auto-playing music is going to lessen the amount of people who visit your page.
And you can see invisible music players will lessen it even more.
If you don't like having the video showing, there is a player that hides the video portion unless you click to have it show. Like the one I use on my updates page. That's my workaround to the "videos must be in the music player" rule they have now.
Or, there is the coding to change the dimensions so just the pause button is showing. I've seen it done.

Extra thing: Putting the music "under the cut" to me is just a loophole. But think of this: most people don't browse the blogs via the category sections. Because of how this site is set up now, many people are looking at everything through the "recent posts" section. There is no "under the cut" there. You click the title, you see the whole blog. No warning if it's not in the title.

The least that can be done, is putting a warning in the title, so that if people are listening to their own music, they can pause it. Or they'll know why their computer decided to freeze up/lag after clicking to go to your page.
But I don't mean something like "AMW", "AMPW", or any other acronym. Not everyone knows what this means, since it's not a common abbreviation.

(I'm not trying to personally attack anyone. I'm just suggesting how to be more considerate.)