# How do I turn off a web page's crappy music?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 20, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342 "2004-03-20T02:55:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zardoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a8b319/32.png) [@Zardoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zardoz)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342/1 "2004-03-20T02:55:45Z")

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I’m doing some research and the site I need to read for a while has crappy MIDI music.I’ve gone through in the options/advanced menu in IE, and unchecked the box that says “play sounds on a webpage”, but it still plays the sounds.

Of course, I could just turn the sound off, but I’ve just ripped Outkast to my hard drive and if I don’t hear the supercool musical stylings of Andre 3000 then I shall despair.

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**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342/2 "2004-03-20T04:17:54Z")

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If the crappy music is a midi, open your volume controls (Windows) and mute the SW Synth. That shouldn’t affect your MP3s, just midis.

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**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342/3 "2004-03-20T04:42:03Z")

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If you’re using IE, try clicking the ‘Stop’ button.

On some pages that does the trick.

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**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-turn-off-a-web-pages-crappy-music/235342/4 "2004-03-20T12:44:07Z")

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sometimes escape button works, but not too consistently.