Spinny,

I went to that link you provided but didn't learn anything that would help me know how to solve my problem. That article focuses primarily on video files and doesn't even mention mp3 audio files, which is what I'm playing on my home page.

FWIW, I opened my index.html file in IE to see what would happen. This time the ffdshow dialog box didn't pop up like it did in VSD. So then I clicked on "View - Source" to see the html code and searched for "ffdshow" but didn't find anything. This tells me that VSD is calling ffdshow. Why it's doing this for a single mp3 file makes no sense whatsoever.

All VSD does is generate the HTML for you to upload. Is this happening inside VSD, or when you visit the site with a web browser?

The ffdshow dialog box pops up inside of VSD when I preview my site. After it builds the site and the preview window opens, ffdshow pops up. I have to start the preview process from my home page for this to happen. If I start it on another page, ffdshow won't pop up until I visit my home page. Ffdshow does not pop up when I visit my site (my index.html file on disk) with a browser like IE.

Okay, I'm stumped. No idea why VSD would be wanting to do that. Maybe try uninstalling VSD and re-installing to see whether something got glitched, otherwise I'd open a trouble ticket with tech support and let them hash it out.

Before I go through all that, why don't you do a test on one of your websites first. Insert a small html object on the home page with the same line of text I used:

<bgsound src="39947__acclivity__SheepAndLambs_edited2_64k.mp3" loop="1"></bgsound>

Then rename a short mp3 file (any file should do) to the name in this line of text and put it in your files folder and click on the Preview button. Let me know what happens.

I won't be able to try it until this evening, I'm at my day job and have no access to VSD here.

Well, perhaps someone else could try it. I'm using the latest version of VSD, so I know it's not a version issue. I'm going to try a different mp3 file to see if the file itself has anything to do with it. I created my mp3 file from a wav file that I edited using a program called Wavosaur. I doubt Wavosaur is to blame, but I guess anything is possible.

Actually, the mp3 file doesn't go into the files folder. It goes into the VSD website folder that contains the files folder. Sorry for the misinformation!

Maybe it's related to what method you're using to call the mp3? What is bgsound, for instance? I'm not familiar with that element. When I've had sounds play on page load I generally use the CC Web Jukebox because there's no set web standard for software devices to play embedded media clips and you never know from browser to browser what their default is going to be.

I have no idea what bgsound is. I don't even remember where I got this code string for the html object. I don't have the CC web jukebox, so I can't use that.

But guess what happened.

I did a preview after I replaced my audio file with a different one, but ffdshow still came up. As I was reading thru all the options on the dialog box again, it went away before I could click on the OK button and popped up my Preview window. But instead of playing the new audio file, it played the same one as before. So I repeated the file replacement procedure I did before and made sure I was working in the correct folder, and then clicked on Preview again. This time ffdshow didn't pop up, but the Preview window opened and started playing the same audio file again. I think Preview must be working in a different folder than the folder where I have my website saved, so replacing the audio file had no effect on ffdshow. Letting ffdshow go away by itself with the first option checked seems to have gotten rid of it completely---for now at least---because it won't come up at all anymore. Shucks, now I don't have anything to complain about!