I don't care for music on blogs, but that's because I prefer simplicity. The first time I encountered a musical blog was when Allen started his new one; I was at the library and thought that someone on another computer was playing music.
 

I aven't yet been able to figure out how to set the music so that it doesnt play, and actually I don't think that if you want it directly on your blog that you can keep it from auto-starting, just cuz if you didnt want it to, you'd hafta link to some other page... I'm n/s about that, but I've tried it... and didnt work, at least not with the music player that I (and Almost everyone else I've seen) uses. Although, I did find one player that might do the trick, but it only works on Win XP I think.... so that would not work for a bunch of people, as they havent yet advanced. And, man, Abby - you guys are back in the stone age (you too Nathaniel!) ;) - you guys still have dialup! craziness... ;).
But, I actually like music on blogs, cuz I like to see what kind of music people like, and if its annoying or conflicts with mine when i don't want it to, 'tis quite easy to turn off... one simple thing people could do is that they could put the player higher on their page, as to make it less dificult for those viewers of their blog to do the uber-hard task of scrolling down a couple of inches and pressing the 'stop' button - apparently 'tis quite the difficulty! ;) just joshing ya Abby!
It really is crazy that everyone has just now in the past weeks gotten my music player and added it to their template tho. :) People are adding other shtuff as well - such as videoplayers - which i think is cool... but i do wish they could be... un-auto-started - I tried forever to get mine not to auto-start, but i couldnt get that to work! I did get it so thet it didn't replay over and over tho...
Hey - just for you, Abby, I will try sometime to figure out how to get the music player at least to start out at a very low volume level or even muted, cuz that should definitely be possible... We'll see...
Anyways... I've been rambling on... YOU'D BETTER READ THIS ABIGAIL!
I'm pretty sure Nathaniel will read it...

Allen
 

So, thers is no setting to default play... at least not that I've found - READ MY PREVIOUS COMMENT! :)
 

....I think there is some way to have your music not autostart... i haven't figured out how to do it though... again - READ MY PREVIOUS PREVIOUS POST! ;)

Allen
 

Can't help the dialup, Allen. Cable costs twice the price of dialup. That's what happens in a town of just 800 people — it's FAR less cost-effective and therefore FAR pricier.