Turn Off That Bloody Music
Dear Lawrence, Kansas St Patrick’s Day Parade website, please turn off that godawful music.
If you really think it is a good idea to let people listen to such stuff, give them a button where they can volunteer to listen to it (and turn it off again once they realise what they are subjecting their ears to).
For maybe 5 minutes in 1996 the practice of shoving music in people’s faces was debateably acceptable - and only because the sensible people in the debate had to go to the bathroom.
Don’t force music on people, ever. Even if it’s nice music. Even if it’s not a midi file. Ever. Don’t. Not on other human beings. Or even on animals. Ever. And don’t put music in midi files on your website, ever. Are midi files even music? Do you know what you’ve done to my dog?
Meanwhile, as far as I can tell there is a St Patrick’s Day Parade in Lawrence, Kansas on the big day, I think. It’s been going on for 22 years. And that’s all I can tell you because my brain now feels like a musical hedgehog tried to mate with it.
Gluttons for punishment, Irish or otherwise, Knock Yourself Out.
And the rest of you who also indulge in such nonsense - stop it - or I’m telling. You know who you are.
Have a quiet look at St Patrick’s Day events in Kansas City.
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
I went just now and not only did I easily find the music player (quite small, but stood out colorwise — with all those colors on the page, grey stood out), but I had to hit play to hear the music. Unlikely that they read your rant and changed it already, so I’m guessing this is one of those things of things working different on different computers. I agree that’s bad music, and I agree one should have the choice to listen or not. On band websites (which that isn’t) I don’t mind music coming on automatically, but I do want the option (and easy to find) to turn it off.
Thanks Ellen, I figured it might be so for some people.
I agree that it hasn’t been changed in the short time following my post. Before I ranted I checked the site on a couple of different computers and on different browsers. I also had a look at the code and could see that the intention was for it not to automatically launch so expected it would work as intended for some visitors, maybe even the majority.
None the less I still had to suffer it involuntarily and was unable to turn it off. In another case I was unable to turn it on. This is what happens when you embed proprietary music players assuming that they are configured the same across the web, or even plugged in at all to every viewing browser.
And yes, I’d probably give a bye to band websites so long as there’s a whopping big non-proprietary off button available to everybody. But no band in their right mind would have music in the form of midi files.
It’s understandable to code websites to serve the majority, but in doing so you leave the minority (ideally a very small minority) out, you don’t punish the minority.