I need help. I’m building a site for a local band and they have some 20 mp3 files that they want on the site. These will be spread over 3 pages (one page for each recording). The mp3 files have to be cut down to around 20 seconds, in other words a pre-view and then, as some of the tracks are on iTunes a link would have to be inserted to iTunes.
Can anybody tell me the best way of doing this.
I’ve been on to my cliant since last November about this but now he tells me he would like it done by the 2nd Feb. Oh well, that’s life…
I need help. I’m building a site for a local band and they have some 20 mp3 files that they want on the site. These will be spread over 3 pages (one page for each recording). The mp3 files have to be cut down to around 20 seconds,
Garage Band is the easiest, there is also Audacity, which is free and open-source. You would open each file, select ~20 seconds’ worth of file, and paste into a new document. Export as MP3, and repeat.
in other words a pre-view and then, as some of the tracks are on iTunes a link would have to be inserted to iTunes.
To get an iTunes store link, just locate the song in iTunes on your Mac (in the store) and on the little ( BUY v ) lozenge, click and hold to expose the options. In that list you will see “Copy Link”. Back in Freeway, create a new link and paste that URL into the External tab of the Hyperlink dialog.
Can anybody tell me the best way of doing this.
Hope this helps.
Walter
I’ve been on to my cliant since last November about this but now he tells me he would like it done by the 2nd Feb. Oh well, that’s life…
This took a bit of hand-coding to use in Rails, and you’d need to do a bit of hacking in Freeway to make it work there as well. The issue is that there is a JavaScript and a Flash component. You’ll need to use the External JavaScript Action to create a link to that JavaScript file in the head of your page, and then you’ll need to add the Flash movie inside an HTML5 Audio container using hand-coding in a Markup Item (if you are going that way) or you’ll need to drag the Flash player onto the page and configure it through the Item / Extended dialog so it knows where to find its audio file.
Walter
On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Gray Owl wrote:
Hi Walter
That helps a lot, thank you.
Just one more question. Whats a good MP3 player that is Freeway friendly and if poss HTML5 as well.