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Briar Rose Technical Page

To hear the sounds (mostly music) that accompany the image pages, you will need to have a browser that is configured to play them. On this page we offer a few pointers about what will work best for both Internet Explorer and Netscape.

Note--All our sound files are in the wave format: <soundfile.wav>

For all browsers

The sound files should play without disturbing your viewing by opening consoles, visibly downloading files, etc.
If these things happen, you need to change the set-up of your browser.
If the sound files play properly, you need make no changes at all.
Check your sound playing by going to this page.

Netscape

The basic player that comes with Netscape is LiveAudio. It should normally play "wav" files.
So should QuickTime, if that is your player of choice. The images below indicate how your Netscape Preferences should be set up for the QuickTime player. to set this you need to open the QuickTime Player and open its "General Preferences" dialog box. You should then see something like this:

The important setting here is the check in the box for "Play sound in background." Once that is accomplished, you can close QuickTime and go to your Netscape Preferences. Select (highlight) "Applications in the menu at the left, and then scroll down until you find "Wav Audio" in the "Description" column. In the example below, you will see that the QuickTime Plug-in 4.0.3 has been selected to play WAV files.

LiveAudio will also work for these files. You can select either one. The important thing is to use a Plug-in rather than having Netscape open the application.
If you do not find WAV Audio anywhere in the description column, you should click the "New" button and add it. If you need to edit the entry for WAV you should highlight it and click the Edit button, which will give you an image like this one:

Make sure the top three rows look like the three in this sample--especially the bottom row. Notice that the Plug-in button has been selected. With that selected, the button next to it should give you a choice of the plug-ins that are available in Netscape's Plug-in folder. In this case quickTime has been selected. Live Audio will also work for this hypertext.
If your Plug-in button is grayed out, that means you do not have a suitable plug-in in your Netscape Plug-in folder, so you must find or download one.
Avoid the other buttons. When things are set up properly, click OK and try our sound test page again.

If none of this works, please get local help. We want you to enjoy this hypertext.