Tuesday, November 6, 2007

TWO ways to add audio to your blogger blog

OK, we learned in class that you can't add an audio file directly into your blog. That's true, the over all process to getting audio into your blogger blog is:

  • Create audio file in mp3 format
  • Upload to some serverspace (we used Googlepages)
  • Create a link in your Blogger blog to take you to your server space.

When you add audio using Googlepages, it looks like this:

Click here to go to my audio file stored on Googlepages.

(Good news--100GB of storage. Bad news--it's kind of cumbersome for the user; a solution, but not an elegant solution.)





But I did just find another way to do this that is MUCH more elegant for the user, but a bit more complicated for you as the blogger (it involves adding some HTML code. Here's what it looks like: This audio file is linked using FileDen.com

(Good news--it's 1GB free storage and can be direct linked which looks MUCH more elegant. Bad news--you have to continue to PASS on the large number of "special offers" they throw at you before you get to the upload screen.)

The instructions to do this are on the Templates Tips and Tricks blog. It's a bit complicated, but the result is defintely more elegant looking and I'll probably do this from now on even if all the "special offers" drive me crazy.

3 comments:

HPLRsMom said...

I am really struggling with this. I accidentally got my voice recorder to work, and I downloaded Audacity and LAME. However, when I try to export as MP3, I get an error that it can't open the MP3 encoding library. Exactly what files should I have from LAME? I have done a couple downloads and I'm not sure it's right. Thanks!

Robin Lindbeck said...
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Robin Lindbeck said...

I'm not sure why you're having trouble. Here's the page with the link to the LAME download and the instructions: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3
(Did you unzip the file? The file you want to point to is: lame_enc.dll)
If you're still having trouble drop me an email and we can coordinate a time to walk through it together on the phone.