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 Putting Streaming Audio and Music
on the Web
  
Assignment: Start working on your image website.
The Image website is due on Saturday, March 25.
Assignment: (Do after Class)
1. Download and install Windows Media Encoder.
2. Practice using Windows Media Encoder to convert
some of your favorite MP3 files into streaming audio files. Remember, you can select the quality and size of your streaming audio files in Media Encoder.
3. Using the HTML code below, practice embedding some of these streaming audio files into one of your webpages.
4. Go to one of your favorite streaming music pages on
the web and look at the source code for this page. Can you tell how they embedded audio files into their webpage?
10. Linking and Playing audio files on the web
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A simple link:
Play the Doors song
<a href="doors.wma">Play the Doors song.</a>
- Playing a song as a background song:
a. Background sound plays just once
Autostart=true
Hidden=true
Loop=false
Code for this trick:
<a href="audio5.htm">Background sound plays just one<br>
</a><br>
Autostart=true<br>
Hidden=true<br>
Loop=false<br>
b. Background sound plays continuously
Autostart=true
Hidden=true
Loop=true
c. Background sound plays just twice
Autostart=true
Hidden=true
Loop=2
- Embedding a music file and play console on a webpage:
--Putting Music Consoles on Webpages
1.Use Dreamweaver and select "Insert" and
select "Media" and then select "Plugins.
2. Select on the Sound object image and then
select the properties and parameters of your
sound file.
3. Here are a set of properties and parameters for
setting up your console and sound file:
CONTROLS=console
--Big console (160 x 60 pixels)
--Small console (145 x 15 pixels)
LOOP=true | false | number
AUTOSTART= true | false
HIDDEN=true (hides console from view)
VOLUME=(0-100)
STARTTIME=minutes: seconds (02.15 for 2 min. and 15 secs.)
ENDTIME=minutes: seconds (03.25 for 3 min. and 25 secs.)
4. Examples of Audio file links: Rocky Horror Sounds Links
- TimeWarp MP3
- Time Warp--Simple Link
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Time Warp with small console
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Time Warp with regular console
Code for this trick:
<embed src="timewarp.wma" width="144" height="40" pluginspage="timewarp.wma" controls="console" autostart="false" loop="false" align="absmiddle"></embed>
Time Warp with regular console<br>
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Time Warp saved for a
computer running with a 28 k. modem.
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Time Warp set to play first
part of opening of the song: 0:00 -- 0:45 seconds.
5. See adding sound to pages using Mouseover
- Use Behaviors window and select "Play Sound"
- Make sure in the Behaviors menu you select
a newer version of Internet explorer, such as
version 5 or 6. Earlier versions of web
browsers don't have the same capabilities as
later browsers
- If you use advanced Behaviors in your website,
please put a note near these Behaviors that
lets the reader know they will only work in
a current version of their web browser.
- Now select behavior on Mouse up, down, over,
out, or click or double-click
- Be Careful using this trick. It needs to be precisely
controlled
- If you use these advanced behaviors for sound,
Dreamweaver will add javascript code that could
conflict with other javascript code you have
inserted in your webpage.
- See Mouseover music example page
- See Mouseover Music Example with console bars
- See Mouseover Music Example without consoles
6. Sound recording using a microphone with Windows
Media Encoder
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Testing sound file
- Record simple voice recordings at lower resolution
than complex musical recording.
7. The Place of Audio files in websites?
- Music or MP3 sites
- Background sounds
- Special effects
- Flash presentations
- Recoded speeches
- Live press conferences and audio performances.
- Web radio
- Internet Chats
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