how do you upload music, from your own cds? Options

[bballchick1]

yea how do you upload music from your own cds onto your xanga and have it so that the visitors can choose what song they listen to? thanks in advance

[ryan_73]

you'll have to copy or rip all the songs off your cd then upload it to a hosting site. from there you can use this code and enter all the url's to the songs to make a drop down playlist for your users to choose which song they want to play:

CODE

<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- begin code provided by createblog.com -->
<form name=choose>
Music Menu:
<select size=1 onChange="midiplay(this);">
<option value="#">Click For Music
<option value="http://url/to/america.mid">America The Beautiful
<option value="http://url/to/cannon_d.mid">Cannon (key of D)
<option value="http://url/to/entrtanr.mid">The Entertainer
<option value="http://url/to/maplerag.mid">Maple Rag
<option value="http://url/to/pete_wlf.mid">Peter & the Wolf
</select>
</form>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// please keep these lines on when you copy the source
// made by: Nicolas - http://www.javascript-page.com

document.write('<bgsound src="#" id=midijuke loop=1 autostart="true">');

function midiplay(what) {
 if (document.all)  {
   document.all.midijuke.src = what.options[what.selectedIndex].value;
 }

 else {
   alert("Sorry, but the Music Menu is only accessible through MSIE4.0 and above.");
 }
}

//-->
</script>
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->
<!-- end code provided by createblog.com -->

for more help with this code go here: http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=324. there are also other music codes for multiple song playlists you can try in the xanga scripts section.

[bballchick1]

okie thanks....that seems a bit too complicated for me but thanks lol

[ryan_73]

okie thanks....that seems a bit too complicated for me but thanks lol

actually it's not that hard and doesn't take that long. uploading the music is what will take some time. you can use windows media player to copy all the songs off your cd. after that you look for a free hosting site. there are many posted here: Big Book of Resources. then you upload your songs one by one to your new hosting site. get the url for each song and place them in your script after where it says "option value=". place the script in your look and feel and than it should work.

for a preview of how it would work you can check out this person's site here: Preview

[bballchick1]

okie...do you know which link hosts music? thanks

[MasterNe0]

try the big book of resources in the webdesign section. It contains alot of free hosting sites.

I know that www.fateback.com is free and I would try that.

[bballchick1]

i know about the big book of resources but i don't know which one hosts music...could you help me with that? thanks!

[ryan_73]

umm you can try freehomepages.com. that's what i use to host my music. when you copy the songs off your cd you should also decrease the bitrate of your songs. this will make the song file smaller so it's not too big for downloading and uploading.

[EmeraldKnight]

freehomepages.com works..

To decrease the bit rate, AudioRight works for me..

You can download free trial at http://www.audioright.com/

[bballchick1]

alrightie thanks