Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Testing... can a sound file work in the blog?

Here is my test sound file. The idea was to work out how to upload a sound file and player into my blog. I'm hoping next week to host here a mini-conference as part of the Facilitating Online 2010 course... with a guest speaker contribution sound file.

So, what I did (according to blogspot instructions) is make myself an OpenDrive account and upload into it my mp3 (which I'd made using Audacity).
Then, in OpenDrive, once I'd uploaded my file, I selected and clicked the little arrow-chevron link to reveal a series of options in a drop-down menu. I chose 'links', which took me to an interface showing a series of URLs for my file, (according to what one intends to do with it). In this case I chose the "html embed" option; copied the stuff in the box and pasted it in here (using the "Edit HTML" view tab) - it worked! (I think... let me know if it's not working for you)
Issues: is it a bit slow to stream?... does it start playing immediately or do you have to wait for the entire file to download?...
I'm going to put a longer file up and then test it from home (where I have a medium speed broadband connection).
My questions about this technology:
Is the idea of using a sound file in the blog appealing?
Is what I had to do to achieve this embedded file too difficult for the average blog user?... (no, but I had to persist a little... now that I know what to do it's a snap, you can do it too).
(Will Blogger develop a wysiwyg interface for uploading sound files similiar to that already available for video do you think?)

Anyway:
Watch this space... a FO2010 discussion about issues with Facilitating Online happening at this location very soon

5 comments:

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Unknown said...

That post above (saying removed by the author ... me) was my attempt to learn how to upload voice files in a comment box... unsuccessfully so far.

Unknown said...

Another attempt to leave a sound file in the comment box...

End of attempt... if this has worked there should be a console between two sentences.

Sarah Stewart said...

I just listened to the interview on your event post - it worked extremely well for me :)

Jillian Clarke said...

I just listen to it as well and it worked fine. Very clear and easy to listen to.