"Pet Peeve" is too mild a term. I HATE websites with unannounced music...

[Richardo]

...those of you surrepticiously surfing at work know what I mean.

:mad: :grr: :nuke: :mad: :grr: :nuke: :mad: :grr: :nuke:



Especially the cheesy synthesized crap.

[Bluebear]

1. A-G-R-E-E-D

It's usually sub-par MIDI crap and scares the life out of me sometimes!

[fob]

2. Care to post the offending link so we know when to turn the speakers

down.

[liontamer]

3. me too

I mean what's the point? If i want to hear music I'm perfectly capable of clicking on a music link.

[Fleshdancer]

4. I agree!

my volume level is always left on high for when I play my music so when I'm surfing and come across a site with music, it always scares the shit out of me. If I can't find a way to turn it off, I leave the site. You should atleast have the option of turning the music off.

[BurtWorm]

5. Hurray!

Fortunately I don't have speakers at work, but I keep hearing bad MIDI renditions of Broadway Tunes going off every couple of days from cubicles far, far away.

[demnan]

6. Definately automatically qualifies as a

"Web Site That Sucks"

[mcscajun]

7. Absolutely rude...and a sign of beginner-level web design.

Nothing worse than having someone else's bad taste in MIDI forced into your brain because they think it's 'so cool I can put music on my page...wow.'

They usually have poor taste in fonts and colors, too...but I can deal with that.

[yardwork]

8. yes yes yes

I'm usually doing my surreptitious web-surfing late at night. Nothing like a really loud ebay auction to wake up everybody in the house and start yelling at me for still being up and waking them up.

[tsakshaug]

9. not to mention

Web accessability guidlines tell you not to put music on the sites. The big problem being people that use screen readers. They get to that site and they cannot hear the reader or the music blows out their ears

[pres2032]

10. yes, absolutely!

and it sucks worse if you have your speakers up!

:grr:

[arwalden]

11. Avant Browser Allows You To Easily And Quickly

disable background music while surfing... and, if you need to hear background music, you can easily turn it back on.

www.avantbrowser.com

[realisticphish]

12. HELL YES

and it's always cheesy synthesized crap BASED ON cheesy crap. thats a double cheesy crap dose, folks, and that ain't good


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[arcane1]

13. INDEED

same goes for un-announced video, too