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Music for complete album

Last post 04-12-2008 4:20 PM by jstorck. 2 replies.
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  • 04-12-2008 2:46 AM

    • jstorck
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    Music for complete album

    I've seen some posts about getting music to play for the complete gallery.

    Ok, so I'm not a techie. The easy, and I mean very easy approach to getting music for your complete Gallery is this:

    1. Download the trial.  Then spend $34.00 (saved me alot of time on other uses as well) and download Coffee Cup Jukebox when your confident it will do as you wish.
    2. There are lots of Skins and 1 invisible if you don't want a visible player.
    3. Create your song or songs in mp3.
    4. Build your jukebox......about 5 mins and very, very user friendly.
    5. Insert the files in the root folder (or the same folder as your page) and the html on the main page.
    6. Use "Insert Inline Frame" (Front Page) for the Gallery. Set initial page to the Gallery.index.html
    7. Insert the html on the main page. Since the Jukebox is on the main page (not inserted Gallery content) it will run as long as the page is up.

     http://www.primetimebulldogs.com/gallery1.htm

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  • 04-12-2008 3:27 PM In reply to

    Re: Music for complete album

    Great tip; I posted a pointer to this in the Tips and Tricks: HTML forum.

    Razvan Neagu
    Shozam Web Gallery Generator
    Executive Team
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  • 04-12-2008 4:20 PM In reply to

    • jstorck
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    Re: Music for complete album

    I would think this would work for any player you can imbed in the "host" page as long as the music content file paths are correct. Infact I embedded a windows media player type but the html was very long and you had to edit the conent file paths which became very tedious. I imagine there are more players out there of the free sort but the ones I found required messing alot with the html.

    I checked out the Swishmax Jukebox, http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=jukebox&tab=overview, and found it more cost, but it's players were good, some with the "moving bars". However checking their forums it appeared the file path issues for many users was confusing. I downloaded it and did numerous test setups. All with succuess but sometimes having to "play" with the html depending on where you placed the files.

    Coffee Cup,  http://www.coffeecup.com/web-jukebox/, was the clear winner (my opinion only) for ease of use and price. Very easy ( I use numerous players in my web and a few others I do so being easy and nearly fautless was worth the $34.00), good skins. and a clean file system to import to your pages.

    1. 1  generated Folder that contains, .mp3's, skin, and player control graphics
    2  1 ea .swf, html, xml (which holds the playlist setup). The .swf, .html, xml are placed in the root web or folder where your page resides. Of course the .html code is inserted on your page and is only about 2-3 lines. It loads and plays very fast on dsl.

    But, what is really cool with the Coffee Cup is within the Folder, generated when "Saved", there is a file called body.jpg.
    This file can be edited in any graphics program to match your desired design as long as you remain at the same size and
    your design allows for the default placement of the controls. In other words custom skins or backgrounds. Eg. here:
    http://www.primetimebulldogs.com/paris_jukebox.htm, http://www.primetimebulldogs.com/9-11_tribute.htm.

    I found it to be a very fun program, which did not cause any stressouts.


     

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