Music on iWeb site

the way iweb is currently set it sets the quicktime option that controls the music file to false. it is possbile to edit the html page after publishing and change the setting to true (not too hard), but you would have to do it each time you re-publish.
perhaps a future update will change this.
good luck

If you do this, though, remember that the entire song must load before your page is fully displayed. This is very, very annoying to many people, so if you want to do something along these lines, it's usually better to keep it very, very brief and compress it as much as possible, unless you have some way to create a flash movie and do it that way. (Just as an FYI, many people really hate involuntary music on websites, so keep that in mind when deciding how to approach this.)

I think a user SHOULD be able to use a program like lilipot

http://www.qtbridge.com/lillipot/lillipot.html

To make any QuickTime movie load progressively. I've not tried specifically with audio, but I'll check and see what happens.

Hey, thanks, Kyn. I'd be interested to know what your results are.

Actually, found an example at 11mystics.

http://web.mac.com/sboben/iWeb/11Mystics/Tunes.html

There, you'll find three audio files within .mov's. As soon as the page loads, you can begin to play them even while they continue to download. So, just a change to the page where the movie resides should make it play automatically and immediately or as soon as enough has buffered.

you can begin to play them even while they continue to download

Well…in Freeway, which I normally use, you can specify this for music that requires intervention by the viewer. But at least in that program, an embedded sound file with the "true" setting has to download totally before it begins to autoplay.

iWeb may handle it differently, of course.

As of now, it seems everything requires intervention in iWeb which is kind of understandable. When working with the QuickTime plugin, there are so many parameters, which ones do you include and leave out in the first version? How do you create an interface that wouldn't confuse the novice?

I'm not sure if it's more of an iWeb thing or a QuickTime thing. If you have autoplay set to true, then the QuickTime plugin SHOULD begin to play as soon as it can. For normal files, this is when they're finished downloading. However, if you export from QuickTime Pro and choose to activate "FastStart", then the wait should only be for enough of it to be loaded to start playing and play to the end without stopping.