Sitting at home feeling relieved that we have a lovely new place to hang out, I got to thinking that over here playlists can surely be made to work a little better.
I checked with Maki jr and google (serves ‘em right!) and, sure enough, it can be done.
See comments, if you’d like to know how!
OK it’s fiddly compared with what we were used to, but we play with what’s at our disposal, right?
Told you we would get better at this, didn’t I?
Click on my utterly predictable and very short playlist for results:
If we want a playlist to play uninterrupted we just post all links in the same [audio linketylink] thingy with a comma between links – seems to work. I thinks there’s also a way to get titles to show. Will keep checking.
yes!!!
Damn, that’s funky. I can’t stop my shoulders moving!!!!!!
DOH! As soon as I hit post, of course, it stopped, because the page refreshed. This is still taking some getting used to. Now, get this in, then click play again …
hey maki, you;re a genius – i have applied your theory to the earworms and it works. have some ‘spill points!!
are you partial to a bit of tabbed browsing, Darce? i find it helps in these situations.
Oh I’m a big tabber, Blimp. Drives DsMam insane if she ever sits down at the PC after me. I just meant I have to remember we don’t get the little extra comment window over here.
We can add everything
Here’s how
You can also add titles for these tracks:
[audio:your_mp3_file_1.mp3,your_mp3_file_2.mp3|titles=The title 1,The title 2|artists=The artist 1,The artist 2]
I can’t find | on my keyboard or I would have done it by now!
Did you see that? That is so damn sexy! And I am so fucking short of work this week I had time to work it out!
Hmm, that’s where I started, but didn’t work for me (obviously). Well done Maki!
Am on the mobile so the playlist shows up as a blue Lego block – perhaps there’s an App for that? The biggy is can you download?
Yeah, Makinavaja! Love the tracks, too.
Just so as there’s no confusion:
This is what I typed in to get these results:
[audio http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1626887/Fruko%20y%20Sus%20Tesos%20-%20No%20Tiene%20Billete.mp3, http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1626887/08%20Bubber%20%28If%20Only%29.mp3 |titles=No Tiene Billete, Bubber |artists= Fruko y Sus Tesos, OluDara ]
Shoey to download, I think we need the actual links. Maybe we could put them in comments rather than the main post or just drop the tracks in RR. I think the wordpress player is designed to be download-proof.
Exactly. Think it may be a little easier to just post the links. Definite progress, but what we have is a reengineered Podbean. Has GF had any luck with posting one of those here BTW? What about FP’s beloved Deezer?
Thanks for the how to, Maki, can see now how my initial attempt failed – was too literal with following the instructions. A 1st for me I think.
Damn, that’s funky. I can’t stop my shoulders moving!!!!!!
Damn right it is! DsD. Fruko y Sus Tesos – quality salsa! More for the box – if anyone’s interested!
Shoey: I haven’t been able to get Podbean or Spotty to play here but that may well be my problem not theirs. I’ve never had much success with dropbox either. I was starting to see a future where I rely on youtube for musical posts, they’re easy.
I’ve also been wondering if we could avoid the copyright issue by having musical links to Spotty and any other ‘legal’ music sites instead of posting from dropbox which is a dead giveaway when they come looking ?
ps: That’s my new avatar to go with the new site, I’ll keep the Nikon for my occasional RR posts.
Looking good, GF!
Shoey – check your email.
“Definite progress, but what we have is a reengineered Podbean”
look top right at FEEDS: click on ‘POSTS’
you see a blue bar THE SPILL page with all the mp3s listed
I just put -right click (don’t know were It’s saved yet!)
Olu Dara ‘Bubber (If Only)’ into itunes and closed all this and it still went to my ipod… spill music on the move ta da.
No, I’m only part-way with you, Shane.
I don’t see the mp3s: did I have to “Subscribe To Feed”?
Works for me, shane. Thank you.
nope DsD, I just clicked POSTS instead of Comments
and I get a list of the posts with the mp3s lined up.
I don’t think I subscribed!
I’ll see if it’s different in another browser(!).. oh!
doesn’t work in opera!
I’m in safari (on a pc)
doesn’t work in IE either!
what about chrome and firefox?
there’s different set-ups in all of them to show what media files are attached.. tried firefox too and can’t get a download.
oh well at least the world isn’t relying on me for tech help – we could all have been DOOMED!!!!
(at least we’re alright mnemosene, he whisper quietly and exits with tail between legs)
I’m using Firefox so that’s not the problem.
I’m on firefox too and it’s working for me.
I just cleaned my computer and it’s wiped my post and now wont let me in!
*sigh* the modern world just gets me down.
shane – your post is still there in draft.
Shane, that’s genius. Only get the latest 10 feeds on the mobile – maybe there’s more on the pc. Mobile won’t support flash. Good luck with the iPad, Apple – the world’s most expensive way of viewing blue Lego bricks.
It’s all a bit complicated for a Cuban Tree Frog, I can’t even upload my photo …
Let’s have another go
“shane – your post is still there in draft”
that’s the problem – I have no way of getting to drafts. or anywhere apart from typing all my info in again here to post as a guest.
wordpress doesn’t work without cookies enabled.. I have to clean this computer of all the shit once a week to keep it running.. usually to give me a few hours to read the start of RR, before getting on with artwork.. then I’d have to reinstate it all.
(now if someone could hack a new version of photoshop and quark and a few extra things and get me some keys for them to work on a mac.. I’ll be right back with you on another computer that works.. til then I’m tied to this ‘gorgeous’ machine *please don’t die on me*
the Guardian broke it’s legs.. this last bit of crawling along is a little too far…
..and all without a simple playlist (I’ve been to so many interesting sites to try and crack that chestnut – hence the clean, earlier this week) too too much for me – I’m afraid.
proper March albums of the month will have to be postponed – or handed back to shoey – whatever is easiest. (the water ones are on the old spill – missing Emma Pollacks – hug the harbour)
Hey hey! It works. Sorry to hi-jack your post, Maki. I’ll bugger off again.
Can’t you use a cleaner that allows cookie exceptions?
he he, I thought I was the only Quarkie here
well, I logged onto this section to get some help posting music up here but I’m afraid my very small brain is resisting all attempts at evolving into 21st century computer-literate man.
This was why I didn’t spill much before – I was bedazzled by the (apparently simple) technology.
Are you saying that I can convert a song into words ???
Magic
They don’t come much less computer literate than me!
You’ve posted video before so the music should be a doddle!
There’s an example of exactly how to do it twelve comments in.