To publish audio on your blog,first you have to find a place to host your files. Some of them allow you only to create a link to copy on your blog, some others are much more complete and they let you both copy the link or create a player to embed on your blog, which is much nicer.
To have a link, you can host your file in many hosting places, such as Box.net or FileFactory.com. You just have to upload the file and then copy the link they give you.
There are not so many places where you can upload your audio file and have your player embeded now. Some which used to be quite good are now under construction (such as GoEar and BooMp3), but finally I have found one I like, which is http://www.esnips.com. This is a good hosting place for any kind of files, which also allows you to create nice widgets for your folder to have them on your blog too.
But today we are interested in audio (you may do some research on your own and see what other possibilities you have and find out what a widget is).
So, let's see how to do it. Go to http://www.esnips.com and sign up. Once you have signed up and signed in, you can create a folder -which you can customize- and upload the file. Click on examine to find the mp3 file in your computer, fill in the information you are required and click on upload file. Once the file has been uploaded, you have two options, either click on MP3 widget to embed a player on your blog, or click on share file, to copy the link or send it by email to someone. The first option is very nice, so we will click on MP3 widget and we will choose one of the widgets from the preview, we will customize it a little bit, if we want to, and finally we'll copy the embed code to paste it on a post in our blog.
You can have the text, the picture and the audio player in the same post or in different ones, that depends on how you like it best.
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Monday, 4 May 2009
Recording a poem or story
You may have a short story or a poem you want to record with your own voice and publish it on your blog, but how shall you do that?
If you look at my blog, you'll see that I have published a beautiful poem by Cummings, with a picture and my recorded voice. And, not long ago I published a fable with my own voice too. So, why don't you try it now too?
You can write your own poem, caligram, fable story, scan it from a book, copy it from the Internet and create either a word or a pdf file to upload with Scribd or Issuu to the blog. Add some pictures, to make it look nice and finally embed an audio player or insert a link to an audio file.
To record your voice, you can use a digital recorder and later transfer the file to a computer, or you can use Audacity or any other kind of audio software to record your voice in the computer.
You'll find Audacity at the Multimedia Room or you may as well download it into your computer (remember to download the extension library too, which you'll need to export files into other formats). It's very easy to use: Set the audio properties in the computer for recording (they are normally set for playing) and check that the microphone is working. Open Audacity and click on the record button, read your peom aloud, or whatever you want, and stop to finish. To listen to your recording, click on play. If you like it, click on save file. If you don't, open a new file and start recording again. When you are ready and your recording is saved, click on Export file to MP3, this way you'll have an mp3 file, which you can later publish on the blog (Audacity files can't be used on the blog, they need to be converted into mp3 files)
If you look at my blog, you'll see that I have published a beautiful poem by Cummings, with a picture and my recorded voice. And, not long ago I published a fable with my own voice too. So, why don't you try it now too?
You can write your own poem, caligram, fable story, scan it from a book, copy it from the Internet and create either a word or a pdf file to upload with Scribd or Issuu to the blog. Add some pictures, to make it look nice and finally embed an audio player or insert a link to an audio file.
To record your voice, you can use a digital recorder and later transfer the file to a computer, or you can use Audacity or any other kind of audio software to record your voice in the computer.
You'll find Audacity at the Multimedia Room or you may as well download it into your computer (remember to download the extension library too, which you'll need to export files into other formats). It's very easy to use: Set the audio properties in the computer for recording (they are normally set for playing) and check that the microphone is working. Open Audacity and click on the record button, read your peom aloud, or whatever you want, and stop to finish. To listen to your recording, click on play. If you like it, click on save file. If you don't, open a new file and start recording again. When you are ready and your recording is saved, click on Export file to MP3, this way you'll have an mp3 file, which you can later publish on the blog (Audacity files can't be used on the blog, they need to be converted into mp3 files)
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