Posting Music to Your Blog

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  disembedded · Member · Apr 20, 2007 at 6:20 pm

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  Everyone’s always asking about this. I found that this works great:

  Well, I hope that I can make this clear. People that want to do it this way, a little futzin’ around with these resources on your own, and you’re on your way. Note that my goal was to be able to record my own voice and then upload it from my desktop, somehow then onto my blog. Odeo Studio was horrible. Sometimes I couldn’t record, and when I could, once on my blog the recording would buffer, buffer, buffer….etc. So here’s what I’ve done:

  1. I needed a good audio recorder. Voila–a wonderful open-source free recorder. For Windows, Mac and Linux: Audacity, free to download at:

  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

  2. So now I can record with Audacity, clean it up, edit and then save in mp3 back to my desktop. Now how to get it onto my blog. Well, thanks to The Status Joe for this magic. First, sign up for a free account with MusicWebTown at:

  http://www.musicwebtown.com/community/sign_up.php

  3. At MusicWebTowm, you can upload an mp3 file from your desktop and then get an mp3 web address that you just insert into the WordPress.com audio player. (They also have a lot of music there that you can use).

  4. For steps 2 and 3 (above), The Status Joe has given step-by-step instructions to follow that are very clear. These instructions can be found at:

  (V.2) How To: Upload and Stream Your MP3s Through Your WordPress.com Blog — For Free

  5. So, then, as an example, this is what I get as an audio voice recording on a memorial posting about the Virginia Tech tragedy. But you could just as well have music audio in it. Here was my first effort:

  Mourning and Hope: For the Virginia Tech Victims

  I hope that this will be helpful to people.

  Best wishes to everyone.

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  knoizki · Member · Apr 20, 2007 at 6:35 pm

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  #1 I’m using it – for fun and it’s a great player+recorder. Now there’s a music player widget that we can put on our sidebar, it is now included in the presentation (box.net widget) and I’m currently using it now. Easy to use, you can download mp3 from your computer and files are shareable.

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  disembedded · Member · Apr 20, 2007 at 6:47 pm

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  Yes, I put it into a box.net widget also, which does work great. The method that I just described also helps to include audio in a post.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 20, 2007 at 7:13 pm

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  I haven’t gotten it to work yet, but the “text to audio” feature looks amazing.

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  disembedded · Member · Apr 20, 2007 at 9:19 pm

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  Yeah, that’s what I meant by futzin’ with it. I had to fiddle around to learn the hang of it (mostly Audacity), but once I did, all was easy and smooth….