Playing MIDI files from website

[irishdragon]

My son's PC won't play MIDI files from websites.

Windows XP. Home Edition, I believe.

I just upgrade Internet Explorer to 7. It was 6 before. Didn't help.

The speakers are hooked up up, and work fine. The obvious stuff. Not muted.

I tested playing MIDI files from the hard drive. Worked fine.

The default player for MIDI files in Windows Media Player.

But when a website has a MIDI file that is automatically supposed to play, it doesn't.

It worked last year. My son likes to play Christmas music on his computer.

Any ideas?

 

[linney]

Do you have a "Play sounds in Webpages" item in IE/ Tools/ Internet Options/ Settings/ Multimedia that needs ticking?

 

[irishdragon]

I don't see that option. IE 7?

 

[linney]

Turn On or Turn Off Play Animations, Sounds, and Videos in Web Pages

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/turnoffanimations.mspx

Have you thought about updating to IE 8?

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...d5-8c3d-4347-8c03-08cdecd8852b&displaylang=en