Music


      This guide will explain how to compress,upload and embed your audio files into your page.

Compressing-

The reason you must to compress your audio files is because then it will be a smaller file, and it will load faster on your page, this is especially great for dial-up users, like myself who have to suffer with a pause every 3 seconds when loading a page with large audio file. Using Itunes you can compress enough, so ven a dial-up user can load it at the same rate its playing, therefore no pauses! How to do this? well first of all, open itunes, then go to the preferences, click the importing tab, set "import using" to "MP3 Encoder," for "setting" select "custom..." In the new window set the "Stereo Bit Rate" to "48kbps" then click "ok", then "ok" again. Now find the song that you want to use in your library (If its not there just import it in there) right click it (control click for mac users), then select "Convert to MP3" now you have two of that song, drag the newly created one onto your desktop and delte it off your library.

Thats it, now you have a highy compressed audio file ready to be hosted online
If you want to learn more about mp3 compression check out this article at How Stuff Works

Uploading-

I've heard of downloading but whats uploading? Well when you download a file, where did it come from? How did it get on the internet? Well its being hosted on a server for your pleasure, and somoeone had to upload it to that server. So you have to upload your audio file to a server....well what server...hmmm well a freeone would be good.....and a simple one too, well thre are many options, but im just going to explain it using Geocites. If you have a Yahoo account, then you can sign in using that, but if you dont, then create a new account, then log in. Once your logged in, click on Easy Upload, its located in the "Advanced Toolbox" on the right side of the page. Now before you upload the audio file, make sure there are no spaces or special charaters, in its name, and if there is, then rename the file. Now click "Choose File" and locate the audio file on your desktop, and click "Upload Files." Then your done with that part :)

Embedding-

Now that you have your file uploaded, you can use an Embed Tag to put that file onto your page. Go to your profile, then in any section, music would be most logical of course though, insert the code for how you want your song

With Controls
<embed src="url of song*"></embed>

With Controls and Autoplay
<embed src="url of song*" autoplay="true"></embed>

Changing the width with Controls
<embed src="url of song*" width="numerical value here"></embed>

Hidden and Autoplay
<embed src="url of song*" hidden="true" autoplay="true">

*The Url is "http://geocites.com/yourusername/thefilenameofthesong.mp3" the quotes have to be included