Background music on web site is not playing in AOL Browser

Question

I have a website that has background music playing on a couple of the pages. Recently, when I opened the pages where music is present in my AOL browser, I get the QuickTime logo and then I get a box with what appears to be code and the music does not start playing.
I have opened the page in both Safari and FireFox and the music starts playing immediately. I upgraded to the latest version of QuickTime and purchased the Pro 7 but this has not solved the problem.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

As expected. Sloppy page code:
<EMBED SRC="http://members.aol.com/vesta1967/godonlyknows.mid" autostart="true"loop="true"
WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM">
A snippet of the page code created by the AOL tools. First thing to notice is that the opening embed tag isn't even properly "closed" (</embed>).
Second issue is incorrect dimensions used in that code (should be 100X16 pixels).
Major issue is that the embed tag is "dead" and has been for more than 4 years. It still "works" in many browsers but it will never work for any Internet Explorer version over 5 on a PC and may even cause issues with Mac browsers.
Newer methods exist that fix the out of date "embed" tag code:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60883
That page explains the newer "object" tag required for PC users and shows a way of "nesting" object/embed tags.
Better methods now use only javascript to write the page code:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html
Either method would require you to "hand edit" your index.html file using a text editor. Not hard to do (just copy/paste) but maybe too much bother for an AOL Homepage Site.
You can probably play your file in any browser by clicking on this link:
http://members.aol.com/vesta1967/godonlyknows.mid
If it works (and I'm sure it does) it proves that QuickTime Player and its browser plug-in is not at fault.
So now you know why it doesn't work as intended.
I'm glad you stuck it out in trying to get an answer. You may have been correct to admonish some of our Discussions pages repliers to your basic question because the real issue got so off track and they didn't really "help".
We are all just end users just like you. None of us get anything for posting answers and we sometimes fail to see a question beyond the words used by the original poster.
Time to make up.
Others?