Adding Music To Stationery

- An Overview -

 

As I mentioned on the Introduction page, the discussion, in this section, centers on using two methods to add music to your stationery. The first method talks about adding music to your stationery using Outlook Express 5.x (or higher) and the second method talks about adding music to your stationery using Windows Explorer and Notepad.

By the way, if you would like to download the music file I will be using, in this example, please feel free to save the file below to the My Documents folder, on your computer. If you are unsure on how to save the music file to the My Documents folder, on your computer, please left click on Music File Help, for an explanation.

 

To hear the music, please left click on the image to the right.

Otherwise, if you would like to download the music file, please right click on the image to the right to save it to your My Documents folder on your computer.

 

Next, the example stationery I am using in the discussion on the following pages, is a piece, which was created during the discussion on Creating Outlook Stationery. So, if you have not seen this discussion and the would like to follow along using the example stationery, please click on Creating Outlook Stationery and take a few minutes to create the example. On the other hand, if you would like, you can substitute any piece of stationery for the one in the discussion on the following pages.

Next, on this page, I would like to give you some general information about the two methods and the advantages and disadvantages of both. Then, on the two pages that follow, concerning adding music to stationery, I would like to walk you through an explanation of both methods and give you an opportunity to add music to the example stationery, with each method, during the discussion.

 

Method 1: Adding music to stationery using Outlook Express 5.x (or higher):

If you choose this method to add music to your stationery, you add music on a message by message basis. The advantages to this method are as follows:

  1. You can use a different piece of music with each message you compose when you use the Rich Text (HTML) message format, which, by the way, is the format used by stationery.
  2. You can add music to any message on the fly when using the Rich Text (HTML) message format.
  3. You can even add music to reply messages even if the initial message you received didn't have music if, you use Rich Text (HTML) message format with the reply message.

The disadvantage to this method is as follows:

  1. You have to add the music each and every time you compose a message. Again, the message must be in Rich Text (HTML) message format. Messages composed with a Plain Text message format cannot have music.

So, to learn how to add music to stationery using Outlook Express 5.x (or higher), please click on the link below:

 

Adding Music To Stationery - Outlook Express

 

Method 2: Adding music to stationery using the conventional method:

If you choose this method to add music to your stationery, you define a default piece of music to be use every time you select the stationery for a message. This method gives you the best of both worlds because, while you define a default piece of music for the stationery you also have the option of changing the music, at any time, by following the instructions from the first method.

With this method, we will be editing the stationery's HTML file to add a code fragment (HTML) that defines the of music to be used whenever you select the stationery for a message. The advantages to this method are as follows:

  1. You never have to add the music to the message because the music is already defined for the stationery.
  2. You have the option of using any piece of music with each message you compose because, again, you have the option of changing the music using the instructions from the first method, if you choose.

So, to learn how to add music to stationery using the conventional method, please click on the link below:

 

Adding Music To Stationery - Conventional Method

 

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