Post a sound clip into a posting
Is there a was that I can post a small sound clip into a posting? I would love to be able to post a specific clip of a certain lick or in the case of a recent post I made...Peter Rowan saying his name and where he was from ....ala Bean Blossom in the 60's.
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Originally Posted by Gary Hedrick
It appears that ability to upload a sound file has been disabled on the Cafe. If I'm wrong one of the other moderators will jump in.
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
The only files you can upload are image (jpg, jpe, png, bmp, gif, jpeg) pdf, doc and txt files. Folks have attached links to places where a soundfile was stored but sound files were never suported on the older Café. The max file size to upload was 150KB on the old system and you are restricted to the extensions listed above for this forum.
Jamie
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
I guess I would ask why?.....copyright issues? or just the plain ole size of it getting out of hand?
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Both. You post a clip of yourself playing a copyrighted song. We have a potential problem. You post a clip of an artist performing, we have a potential problem. You post a clip that is huge. We have a potential problem. Scott's pockets aren't as deep as the folks that run Youtube. They've had more than their share of legal issues.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Okay, so how does this work with the MP3 page we have?
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Totally separate server space and software (i.e., the MP3 page isn't part of the forum), and explicit permission from the artists to Scott and the Mandolin Café to host the file.
Jamie
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Thanks for the info!
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Understand. Perhaps a suggestion for a future iteration of this board would be the ability to store sound clips (like the photos) along the same lines as the MP3 page. It seems a shame that there are so many nice photo's here on the cafe, but the sound of the instrument is otherwise missing.
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
I'm not saying we'd never allow it, but it'd be impossible to police what could be put out here if we allowed anyone to upload MP3s. You have to be careful, and if someone else posts publicly downloadable copyrighted information, it'd be me that'd be answering to the legal system, not the user. I just don't want to have to listen to every possible MP3 that might get added. It's that simple.
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Makes sense, thanks Scott!
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Okay, here's a thought and I'll let others here tell me if this would be a workable solution.
People could post clips over on You Tube and then link those clips here on the Cafe. I don't profess to understand the ramifiactions of such a process, but if there was something like a "sound links" section that contained the links to these files it might be a possible work around.
Here's an example
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Like the post a video thread?http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=25016
BTW, with the old forum software giving a link a name was a piece of cake. I have not figured it out with this software. How is it done?
Bill Snyder
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Bill,
1) Click the button for inserting a link.
2) paste the link into the box and click OK.
3) the software returns you to the box and 1/2 of the text is highlighted. Just type new text in there and replace what's highlighted then move to the right of the [/url] section and type the rest of your message.
Examples
First just paste in the link and move along.
http://www.mandolincafe.com/ OK... I didn't modify anything.
This time I'll replace the second h%%p://www.mandolincafe.com/ with Home Page
Home Page
Does that work for you?
Jamie
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Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
I have no idea why I did not see that before. That is every bit as easy as the old forum software.
Thanks Jamie.
Bill Snyder
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
Yeah, I guess you're right. I just wish that more builders (hint, hint) would include sound clips along with photo's of their mandolins. It's great to see what they look like, but to me the sound is much more important.
end.
2015 Chevy Silverado
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1953 modified Kay string bass named "Bambi"
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
You can do it another way, too. Write out your message, then highlight the word(s) you want to make into a link. Then just click the "globe and chain" link icon, and paste your URL into the field. That's the way I've been doing it.
Re: Post a sound clip into a posting
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