Background Music

1. 1Go to Dashboard → Music
2. 2Under Music player, press Add a song
3. 3Pick an MP3, WAV or FLAC up to 20MB
4. 4Press Save in the bar at the bottom of the screen

Music plays with any background type: you do not have to pair it with a video.

Once a song is uploaded, its details appear under it: a Track title and an Artist of up to 120 characters each, and Cover art with its own crop, Adjust the artwork. Visitors see them on a small player on your page. Starting volume, under Sound, sets where the visitor's volume slider begins, 25% unless you change it: it is a starting point, not a ceiling, because the visitor can turn it up or mute it.

Browsers refuse to play audio until the visitor has interacted with the page. That is not something we can switch off, and it is the one thing worth understanding here.

• With the enter screen on, the click that dismisses it starts the music. This is the smoothest version
• With the enter screen off, music starts on the visitor's first click, tap or keypress

Both need Start the sound on the visitor's first click, under Sound, which is on unless you turn it off. Off, the visitor starts the music themselves, with play or the speaker.

So a silent page is usually a page nobody has touched yet, not a broken upload. The line under your song in Music player says which of the two cases you are in.

If you have both a song and a background video, What plays appears under Sound with four choices:

• Music only: play the music, mute the video
• Video sound only: play the video's sound, mute the music
• Both: play both together
• Silent: mute everything

With a background video and no song, the video plays its own audio. Mute video, under Sound in Music player, silences it.

Player style, under Music player, sets how your song's player looks: Compact, Background only, Vinyl, Wavelength, Marquee and Lyrics. Wavelength and Marquee are Premium, the rest are free. Where it shows puts it inside the card, or outside it as a tile under the card (in Bento, among its tiles beside the card). When a song ends chooses Next song, Play it again or Stop.

More songs adds up to nine more, ten in all, each with its own title, artist, cover and volume: MP3, WAV or FLAC up to 20MB each. Shuffle plays them in a random order instead of the order you set.

Lyrics, under Music player, takes an .lrc, .json or .ttml file timed line by line or word by word, up to 256KB. Or press Find lyrics: Noiz looks the song up by its title and artist in LRCLIB, a free community library, and shows the timed lyrics it has, the closest in length first. Nothing is added until you pick one, so check it is the right song. They are free. Show lyrics puts them under the player always, only while the song plays, large behind your whole page while the song plays (Background), or not at all; Light up chooses word by word or line by line, and lyrics timed by line light a line at a time either way. Lines shown sets how many appear at once. The Lyrics player style turns the player into a panel led by the lyrics, with its own size and theme.

• Use something you are licensed to use. A page is a public performance
• Keep it quiet. Someone opening your link at midnight did not ask for this
• Loops and instrumentals wear better than a song with a beginning