Publishing Audio Files

This post explains how to publish an MP3 audio file. I assume you have already created the file (perhaps by recording your work on a computer). Please do not publish work for which you don't own copyright. The main steps are:

1. Upload the MP3 to the web
2. Create a post in this blog
3. Link the post to the MP3 file.

Let's go over these steps in detail.

1) There are several sites you can upload MP3 files to, but some of them (such as Wiki Upload http://www.wikiupload.com/ don't seem to work). So I added the file to a Google Group, which allows you to upload up to 100 Megabytes of data. I used the CoventryWritersGroup group (http://groups.google.com/group/coventrywritersgroup). (You need to be a member before you can upload files.) I uploaded the file Test mp3.mp3.

2) To create a new post in this blog you need to be an author, that is a member of the group invited by one of the other members. Sign in, which takes you to the Dashboard, then click on New Post. Add a title.

3) I linked the post by entering the following HTML.

You may need to allow your browser to run an active-X control to run this MP3 player. <embed src="<a href=" type="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></embed>http://coventrywritersgroup.googlegroups.com/web/Test%20mp3.mp3</a>" width="280" height="24" type="audio/mpeg" allowscriptaccess="never" autostart="false" loop="false">

Notice that before you can enter HTML which works you need to click on the "Edit HTML" tab near the top of the page. When I do that and paste in the HTLM code I get:

You may need to allow your browser to run an active-X control to run this MP3 player.

Now I click on Publish Post. Note that you can make the MP3 player start automatically by changing to autostart=true.

Member Profile

This posting keeps details of members of the Coventry Writer's Group.

Just click on Comments and add your details!

Meetings

Coventry Writers' Group meet

in the Robert Burns Room
Tam O'shanter Burns Club
Hertford Pl,
Coventry,
West Midlands,
CV1 3JZ, UK
024 76220929

on the first Tuesday of every month. The room has a bar where refreshments can be purchased . Meetings start at 7.30 pm and run for approximately three hours. There can be anywhere from 15 to 20 people at a meeting.
We have a variety of writing talent within our group, a lot of whom have work regularly published.

The group has been in existence for over 50 years.

Contact details:

Mike - Chairman Sherratt
34 Bexfield Close, Allesley Village
Tel: 02476 405232
Email: michael.sherratt1@btopenworld.com

Secretary: Christine Rutherford
23 Frances Road
Harbury
krismonsen@btopenworld.com