a pet peeve on the web

There you are casually browsing a website, relaxing and checking out the content when your computer starts blaring this horrendous noise out of its speakers for apparently no reason and you swear your speakers must be turned up full blast.

You know what I'm talking about: embedded music players! Uggh! I can't stand them!

The concept should be banned from the internet. Don't force people to listen to your "favorite" music, you know it isn't. You just make a best effort based on what they have available. Not to mention the player slows down website browsing and has you making a mad scramble for your speaker volume controls before something shatters, like your ear drums or your windows and that's because you can't click the Pause/Stop button because the stupid thing is still loading so it won't respond to your mad click, click, clicking on the mouse button.

If people want background music while surfing, they've got iTunes/Winamp/Media Player/etc. to do the job for them and they get to listen to the music THEY like.

Don't use embedded music players on your website! Be kind to humanity (and your friends and family who frequent your website the most).