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Rite well basically i have 2 pcs a good 1 and a crap 1. I want to change the crap 1 into a kind of music/data type thing. It only has 1 GB of hardrive and isnt useful for anything else so i figured this may be the only way it would get some use. Wot i basically want is the pc to load up a offline webpage as soon as it boots up. I want this website to all be offline (i can do this) and contain links to the mp3s that i have (they are on cds in there data format). So i basically want to turn my pc into a huge offline website.

What i need to know is it possible to: a) link to cds from webpages, OR once a link to a song is clicked is it possible to make a pop-up saying insert CD "so and so". and b) how can i make this website load automatically as the computer loads up?

Your help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, btw sorry if this makes no sense im not too good at explaining things.

Rite well basically i have 2 pcs a good 1 and a crap 1. I want to change the crap 1 into a kind of music/data type thing. It only has 1 GB of hardrive and isnt useful for anything else so i figured this may be the only way it would get some use. Wot i basically want is the pc to load up a offline webpage as soon as it boots up. I want this website to all be offline (i can do this) and contain links to the mp3s that i have (they are on cds in there data format). So i basically want to turn my pc into a huge offline website.

What i need to know is it possible to: a) link to cds from webpages, OR once a link to a song is clicked is it possible to make a pop-up saying insert CD "so and so". and b) how can i make this website load automatically as the computer loads up?

Your help will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, btw sorry if this makes no sense im not too good at explaining things.

It's a bit tricky if you just want to link to different Cds, seeing as they all go through the D:/...

You wont be able to get messages up saying 'Insert Foo Fighters' etc...

What you could do is to get all your music and convert them to MP3s and store them on the PC, you could then have the page containing the C:/ link to each song so that once you click it, it plays...

I don't know if there are any programs that do it but I think you would have to design the webpage yourself, you only need to use Frontpage to make it, only needs to be basic...

I've missed out loads of stuff but I hope that helps slightly...

thanks for your help. 1 problem i have is that i only have 1gb of space on my old pc. thats why ive put all my music on to cds as data files in ther mp3 formats so i can fit more songs onto a disc. Ive got the site made already really with all the info i need etc.

i just need to know how to get it to run when the computer loads. As it now seems impossible that i can get it to say "Please insert CD 1" (i will have the cds numbered) and so on has anyone got any ideas of how i can make this work? I was thinkin of using a html pop up script to tell me wot CD to insert, but i really would like it to play the correct song was the cd is inserted in the drive! n e 1 got n e ideas?

Also is it possible to link webpages to the cd drive!

You can link files to the C:/ through a webpage...

Your idea with the pop-up saying 'Please Enter Disk One' would be the best you could do, everytime you clicked a file, it would have that pop-up and this would just make sure that you had the correct CD in...

If you didn't have the correct CD in then you would just get a simple error...

makaveli666 wrote:
> i just need to know how to get it to run when the computer loads.

Putting a link to the site in your startup directory might work. This can be done by opening your webpage, and the startup directory (seeing as you know how to make websites, I would assume you know where this is) and dragging the ie icon from the address bar to the startup folder. However, I've never tried this method before, so don't blame me if it doesn't work :-)

If you do not know where the startup directory is - you might be able to find it on your start menu, or by right clicking the start button, and clicking open. But it differs depending on operating systems (I think), so I can't tell you where it is.

You could still get loads of mp3's on that hard drive, it would be much easier to just rip all the mp3's to the hard drive and maybe then put a cd with loads of mp3's on and run from there, it would be a lot of hassle to get it to link to the cd rom then to tell you to put the cd in, if you are trying to make a little mp3 box then you could just buy a bigger hard drive as storage and make your 1gig drive boot straight into winamp, an easy way to get something to run when you go straight into windows is to open notepad type

C:\winamp.exe

Then save this file as load.bat (or something) then put it into windows startup, so when you startup windows it should open winamp, the same should be able to be done with a web page?, there are far more complicated ways to do this but this would be the easiest.

c.b.

Seems like you are trying to do something fairly complex by trying to make it all in a web page.

Javascript should allow you to click a link and have a pop up message telling you what cd to insert or another appropriate message.
Or even use a spreadsheet with the name of all the tracks and the cd album they are on.

I'll have a think about it, trying to get my head round exactly what you want and why you want it like this..

Will let you know if I can figure something out

thanks for all your help so far guys, most of it has been really helpful. i myslef am also thinkin of other ways this can be done.

Ill go into a bit more detail of what i want and why i want it.

I buy a hell of a lot of cds and also have loads of mp3s that i have downloaded. When people come round they always say, wow uve got loads of cds have u got "this song" or "that song". This got me thinking that i could make a kind of music database on my old pc. However i simple dont just want a list of songs i want it to be more interactive. Ive got quite good at making websites so fort i could do it in html format as this way it will look good aswell. I want this "thing" (or woteva it turns out to be) to provide me with something nice to look at, that has a search facility so i can search for paticular artists and songs, aswell as the ability to link to the songs either on a hard-drive or cd, it will also require a pop up telling me what cd to insert. Well thats basically what im looking to complete. Heres the ideas i have so far (from myself and you guys).

*I refer to it as the "music database" as thats wot its going to kinda be in the end*

-The music database to be done in html, i have already made a design.
-I really would like to get it to link to the disc drive because then i can use all the cds i have bought through the system. Also i haven't really got enough money to buy a new hardrive at the moment.
-For the pop-ups im thinking of using a simple javascript pop up to inform me what cd to input, of course i will have to input what it has to tell me while making the music database.
-As the database will be in HTML i havent really had any ideas as to how the search facility will work. Any ideas?

thats bout all i can think of at the moment. n e ideas how i can put this idea together and make it work??? at the moment it may seem pretty pointless and just a snazzy complicated way to organise and play cds. but i really want to do this because it will be interesting setting it all up and also i want a use for my old pc.

Thanks in advance.

Or you could buy a bigger hard drive and use Winamp.

It doesnt seem pointless mate, i have an old P3 550 system in my lounge with a 40gb hard drive which i have networked up with this one which has 100GB hard drive, i have used my tv out on the video card and used the audio out on the soundblaster card into my stereo, this means i can watch dvd's or other video files and also listen to my massive range of mp3's, although i still boot into windows xp, it works great, basically what i am saying is why not use both your pc's the old one for booting onto and network that to your other one (assuming you have a newer one) use this other one to store your mp3's (or wma tracks as they take up less space with same\better quality) and there are tones of programs out there that will index your mp3's and have search capabilitys, you could even use windows media player and get it to start full screen on startup, this will also mean you can use internet connection sharing through the network, you are going to have to boot into an OS (operating system) though otherwise you will have to write yourself a gui (graphical User Interface) using C+ and other languages, You could learn Visual basic at begginers level this will help you create a GUI fo this project.

A few things to think about.

c.b.