How to embed audio into a blog or MySpace

Do you want to enhance your Blogger, Wordpress, MySpace, etc.? Do you want to add some music to your posts or profiles? Embedding music into your blog or MySpace profile is really easy with Fun SoundPlayer Maker tool. You need no special plug-ins – just an SWF sound player and its HTML code. You may ask: "Where can I get them?". This program will give them to you. So, let's go into technical details.

To embed audio into a web page, there are three steps:

1. Creating Flash sound player;
   
2. Uploading SWF player to the Web;
   
3. Inserting Flash audio player code into a web page.
   
   

Does that look difficult? Actually, it's not. All you need to create an SWF music player and its HTML code is to use Fun SoundPlayer Maker utility. It lets you create and customize web sound players and buttons with some mouse clicks. Even the worst dummy can create flash music player with its help – no programming or scripting, simply choosing a button look, selecting sound file to embed and… that's all. Yes, it's really that easy. The program gives you web ready SWF file of your audio player and a piece of HTML code. Select "Save SWF and copy an HTML code to clipboard" in publishing options.

The next step – to get a flash mp3 player working, we should upload an SWF file to the Web. When it comes to the website owners, we say – upload an SWF player to your server. But if you're a usual blogger without your own server, what should you do? I use Google sites to store my files. Go to http://sites.google.com and create your own website. That's where you can store your files. Attach the file of your flash sound player to the created website and go to your blog or MySpace profile.

That's the third step – open an HTML editor of your blog post and paste the player code from the clipboard. It will look like this.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="34" width="84"><param name="movie" value="myplayer.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><embed src=" myplayer.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="34" width="84"></embed></object>

Then, go to your Google site and copy the link of the attached SWF file. In Internet Explorer, simply click the file, open it with IE, and copy the link address in the address bar. In Firefox, it's easier to right click on the file, in the popup menu click "Copy Link Location", and get the link address. Paste this link into your code as a player source (replace the name of your SWF file with this link):

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" height="34" width="84"><param name="movie" value="myplayer.swf"><param name="quality" value="high"><embed src="
http://sites.google.com/site/yourgooglesite/Home/myplayer.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="34" width="84"></embed></object>

That's all, your audio player is successfully embedded to your blog or MySpace.

Tips: 1) Select player templates with an embedded sound source. 2) As most of the blog editors don't support JavaScript, select standard compliant markup in player publishing options. 3) While posting your player, you will see nothing in a visual post editor. You'll see only the code in an HTML editor. Don't worry, that's normal. You'll be able to test player in a post preview. 4) Make sure that your Google site is shared for public view, otherwise your blog visitors won't see you flash content.

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Must have flash tools for website owners and bloggers

The extensive lists of flash tools in flash software directories make website owners and bloggers hesitate what tool to choose to create flash elements and embed them into a web page. In this post, I want to list my own selection of the most helpful flash website tools – tools for creating flash media players, flash animation and graphics effects, flash slideshows and flash graphs. Each of these utilities is a highly ranked swf tool used by web developers and general users. But the most important for me is that they are easy-to-use tools with intuitive interface and great features set. I’ve divided all the tools in some categories depending of what they are used for.

1. Flash tools for creating flash media players and embedding audio or video to a web page:

• flash mp3 player creators:

Fun SoundPlayer Maker - allows you to create Flash music players and buttons for your website.

SWiSH Jukebox - converts your MP3s to cool Flash sound players at the click of a button.

Website Music Player - easily add music to your Website with this advanced flash mp3 player.

FlashWAmp - transforms any original Winamp skin to Flash sound player for publishing background music to sites.

• flash video player creators:

VLC Media Player - a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats.

JW FLV Media Player - an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website.

CoffeeCup Web Video Player - convert your movies to Flash and get them on the Web.

2. Flash animation tools:

CoffeeCup Flash Firestarter - quickly creates complex text and image effects with just a few clicks of the mouse.

SWiSH Max - everything you need to create stunning fully interactive Flash animations. You can create shapes, text, buttons, movie clips, and motion paths.

IncrediFlash XTreme 1.0 - filters and blend modes, 100+ text effects, videos, music, sounds, interactivities, layer effects.

3. Flash slideshow makers:

Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder - helps you create elegant flash slideshows, flash photo albums, flash photo galleries, etc.

Amara Slideshow Builder - developed to help create and design Adobe Flash Player compatible photo slideshows and photo albums.

CoffeeCup Photo Gallery - an easy-to-use photo gallery creator for a website.

FlashSlider - make flash slide shows with photo and sounds, and share them on the web in a few minutes.

4. Flash charts creators:

Animated Chart - generates animation charts as movies in Adobe (Macromedia) Flash™ format for publishing them to web sites.

XML-SWF Charts - a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data.

Swiff Chart – an easy-to-use tool which lets you create animated charts in Macromedia Flash format.

AmiChart - create animated column, line and pie charts with just a couple of clicks of your mouse.

These flash tools can help you to create an attractive website content and make your web page or blog eye-catching and unusual.

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