You can use scripting to insert a wma or mp3 file in your HTML formatted messages. Just insert the following script, changing the link to the location where you have stored your wma or mp3 files. Of course, if the recipients have scripting disabled by running in the Restricted Zone, they will not hear the sound.
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<SCRIPT language=JavaScript>
/*
WMP9 insert script
by Edgar V. Poirier
Media Player 9 Script
Bug fixed version
*/

// Insert the complete URL to stream the wma from
pathName="http://home.comcast.net/~jimpickering/sounds/AMfriend.wma"

// Create the Media Player with nothing visible and Play the stream
player="<OBJECT ID='Player' CLASSID='CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6' style='position:absolute;top:-1800'>"
player=player+"<PARAM name='uiMode' value='invisible'>"
player=player+"<PARAM name='autoStart' value='True'>"
player=player+"<PARAM name='playCount' value=3>"
player=player+"<PARAM name='volume' value=98>"
player=player+"<PARAM name='URL' value='"+pathName+"'>"
player=player+"</OBJECT>"
document.writeln (player)

</SCRIPT>
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Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/pr...8-1171988A62D6
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"marrie" <jhgmcyqczfy@mailinator.com> wrote in message news:OhXJcqJ7FHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Well, that just sucs as I would like to use mpes for voice recording and
> such, but I will have to lower the bit rate and sampling rate. O well.
> "Mason C" <masonc2@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:92isn11emouenommgn4k4d3o44bjsg3r0k@4ax.com...
>>I apologize. I made the standard blunder: failed to review old threads.
>>
>> Although listed among the file types, mp3 and wma cannot be used
>> as background. And a reference was given:
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;883355
>>
>> Mason C
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:16:46 GMT, Mason C <masonc2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Musical greeting cards etc are common.
>>>Therefore voice can be stored like music and e-mailed.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to send my voice by e-mail to a blind friend.
>>>
>>>I use ZabaWare Hal to create a .wav file from text.
>>>I can convert this to an mp3.
>>>
>>>I can use Outlook Express to e-mail this as background sound
>>>to myself. That works, using the mp3 from my local hard disk.
>>>
>>>I can also put the mp3 at my web site and use it from there.
>>>I may learn tomorrow if my friend receives it.
>>>
>>>My question: where is the mp3 file hiding on my system
>>>after I *receive* the e-mail? My searches have failed.
>>>
>>>I see small .lnk files referring to it but they are unreadable.
>>>
>>> Mason C
>>
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