Original title is Embedding Music into Email
Did you ever open an email and it started playing music? Want to know how it’s done? Here it is in 9 easy steps…
NOTE: This will only work using Outlook Express, not Outlook which I have tried a couple times too.
1. Click anywhere in the message window. (If you haven’t yet started a message.)
2. On the Format menu, up in the toolbar, point to Background , and then click Sound .
3. Choose the radio button for either “Continuously” or “Play the sound” and select the number of times you want the file to play.
4. Click Browse for a drop-down box to find the location of the file.
5. Browse to the Directory and Folder where you have the music (Midi Files, Mp3, or WAV) saved. Remember that midi files are fairly compact (20-30kb) while MP3 files are much larger (2M-6M). The larger the file, the longer the download time for your recipient, plus, some servers block large email from going through.
6. Choose the file you want to embed. Then click Open.
7. The file will be in the “File” space, like this…
8. Click OK and the music will be embedded into your message.
9. Now, just send your email and away it goes!
this will not work with mp3 or wma files they must first be converted to .wav then it works perfect
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What about using outlook express 2000 where the only options for “Background” is picture or color?
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Jegs11 I am running outlook express 6 on xp pro and have to convert for it to work. I use easy cd-da extractor and select the .wav (Fraunhofer MP3 codec) this keeps the file size almost the same size as the original and does not make a huge unusable wave file.
As far as outlook express 2000 brenda you may have to try and update to a new version if possible (i assume your operating system is win 2000) i dont that anymore and forget if it is upgradable still but think it might be
are you sure you are not using MS outlook as part of a Microsoft office package
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How do I do this in Outlook 2007? I cannot seem to find any of that stuff…
Rich
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I have sent e-amail with music following your instrucions, but when I check my sent floder and open up the e-mail has no music after I retrieve.Plays music again when I click on forward and foward it to myself and no music?
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How would you do this on Macbook ??
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Thanks! That was very helpful, I just saved your site.
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Greeting to you from Seattle, great article, lots of help, tnx
xoxoxo
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Do u know any other articles on this subject? Looking for more infos on this.thank you
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I’ve tried to do this with Outlook Express 2003 I think , and it didn’t work . Can you tell me what I should do ? If you know any other way to do this on hotmail or gmail , I’d also appreciate to know .
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I seem to be having a hard time , subscribing to your RSS feed. It comes up with error 500. Let me know if its a common error or if its just me . Ive tried firefox and IE. Im using Bullguard Firewall and im not sure how to turn it off . Im not too fimiliar with Laptops. Ill revisit your site and see if you have responded. all the best
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