sound bar for an audio upload
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I want my audio uploads to be accompanied by a little play-pause-stop-volume bar, and I want my listeners to be able to keep looking at the screen while they listen, not switch to a Quick Time media page. How can I set this up? I’d appreciate any assistance!
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Sorry, I may be technically disabled….I have seen that page before and just cannot figure out what I am supposed to do. If I use the link provided, I’ll get Tom Rafferty, right? How do I get the thing with my own sound upload? And whatever do they mean by “somewhere on the internet”?
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Must remember to refresh! LOL
There are lots of threads on audio here already. Please click on the “audio” tag you added in the sidebar.
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Sorry…can someone just explain this:?
“1) Upload an mp3 file somewhere on the internet and link to it like this [audio ] with the address inside like this:
[audio http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/mattmullenweg-interview.mp3%5D
which will produce the following player”
1. I need to upload an mp3 sound file from my own computer, so I don’t understand this “somewhere on the internet” business.
2. What exactly does “link to it like this [audio] with the address inside…” mean? -
– If you want to upload mp3s directly from your computer to your blog, you need to buy the paid space upgrade.
– If you don’t do that, you must upload your mp3s in a file hosting site, then get their direct URLs from there. The sites I would recommend are Fileden or GetDropBox.
– Either way, the WP audio player only shows up when you use that special “shortcode” in the post or page editor:
[audio URL_OF_MP3_HERE]
or
[audio=URL_OF_MP3_HERE]
Safer in the html editor.
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I bought the Space Upgrade.
Sorry, I’ve managed to upload the file, it’s on the blog, as are several others, but only with the Quick Time player that takes the reader to a new page. When you tell me to “use that special ‘shortcode’ in the post or page editor” I just don’t know what you are talking about nor do I understand the “safer in html editor.”
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1. I don’t see what else I can say. You take the URL of the mp3 (from “http” to “mp3”) and paste it in the post editor the way I show above.
2. The editor has two tabs/modes: visual and html. The one shows you approximately what you’ll see in the published page, the other shows you the code for that. The mp3 URL has to be plain text, so you’d better paste the shortcode with the mp3 URL in the html editor; in the visual the URL may be pasted as a live link, which won’t work.
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sorry…what IS “the URl of the mp3?” And I don’t see where you “showed” anything “above.” Please don’t give up on me…there are just too many pieces missing here.
I tried putting “http://wpcom.files.wordpress.com/2009/01.Bowl of Baraka.mp3” in the editor in the body of the article where I had put the first uploaded sound file. it showed up just that way on the blog page.
I tried redoing the upload and changing the URL on the upload page to read as the above, then selecting postURL, but that didn’t work.
I tried changing the permalink above the text box on the edit page, and that wouldn’t change.
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I’ve visited the FAQ page several times and tried several things and nothing works. Thanks for the suggestion, but what I need are ultra-simple step-by-steps maybe beginning with the first step of clicking to upload a sound file just above the text box on the editor, or from the AddNew under Media. Please don’t give up on me!
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1. Post editor > click the Add Audio button > click “Media Library” > locate the mp3 and click “Show” > look at “Link URL”: that’s the URL of your mp3. If it doesn’t show, click “File URL”.
2. “And I don’t see where you showed anything above.” Don’t you? Ok I repeat. You paste the URL in the post editor like that:
[audio URL_HERE]
or
[audio=URL_HERE]
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Godiva chocolate-cream-cheese brownies to you! But I’m still missing something….I did everything you said but now I have an extra page popping up between the original blog page and the player, when I don’t want any page-switching at all.
Perhaps I messed up on your number 2: I selected the URL and copied it and returned to the editor. I copied it into the post. It showed up on the blog just as the URL, not as a player. Then I went back to your instructions and tried to be more precise:
audio=http://nuralqasas.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/bowl-of-baraka/bowl-of-baraka/-HERE ?That also just shows up as text on the published page. Please, what on earth am I missing?
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Okay, look at your page in Edit. If the mp3 shows up underlined, as it does in most of these posts, put your cursor on it and click the Broken Link icon. The link must be broken for this to work; if you get buffering forever, it’s the #1 cause.
Other issues are:
sometimes you’ve got to use the = and sometimes just a space
sometimes you’ve got to put it in the HTML editor.That’s all I can think of.
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1. Nothing’s underlined
2. Don’t have a buffering forever issue
3. With or without the =, the thing just shows up as the URL on the published page.
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Yes, but have you tried it in both the HTML and the visual editor? Some themes only accept it from the HTML editor.
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HTML and visual
And now, after all this fiddling, the original upload I made, which was working OK even tho it took the reader to another page, now only plays a few seconds before shutting down.
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