Audio on a Blog (2)

Further to my problems outlined in a previous post, I've been trying the suggestion from Iain. He suggested using box.net to store the file. Once uploaded, the files can be sent straight to your blog, with a comment, meaning there is no need to add a new post to your blog first.

This worked perfectly for me, and was very quick and easy, but unfortunately it ended up on the wrong blog! If you want to use this method, make sure that the blog you are posting to is at the top of your blogger dashboard before you send the audio file to it. You can do that by making a change on your blog first, and it will then be moved to the top of the list. I decided to write this info first, then go back and send another post.

Of course if you only have one active blog, this won't be an issue.

Once the file has been uploaded to box.net, just click on the wee arrow on the top right corner to see the option to send to your blog. Select your blogger name, add a message (appears as post content), and away you go.

Audio to a Blog: box.net

This audio file, and message, were added to box.net and sent straight to this blog from there. No need to go to two different websites - brilliant! Thanks Iain.

kays_podcast_1.mp3

Audio on a Blog

I've been asked by a couple of people how they can add audio to their blogs. The answer to this isn't as easy and obvious as adding videos through YouTube for example (although we may not ever need to do this again with the new video upload button in Blogger).

As with all other objects we have been adding to our blogs, the audio file has to be stored on a third party site - finding this has been the most difficult part. I've got mine working and it wasn't too difficult. I decided to upload my files (MP3) to my Google Pages account. Google Pages allow you 100MB of free storage which sounds a lot but my short podcast was 2MB so it wouldn't take long to use up your allowance - there must be somewhere else we can upload files to but I can't find it! Once uploaded, you can right click on the audio file and "Copy Link Location". This can easily be hyperlinked and added to your post as below "Hear our Podcast".

Now my favourite part of this: to show a list of all MP3s linked to your site, I've added a Streampad Player to this post. It's easy to choose any audio file to listen to. NB: It may take 2-3 hours before new MP3's appear on the player.

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