Two web site building / HTML questions

Submitted by Talking_Mule on Wed, 2008-04-30 15:35.

Anyone? Anyone?

I want to know how:

To make an MP3 file nicely available on my site - that is, some sort of button, a title, and most importantly, some clue of what will happen when a real user clicks the link to the file. I was able to get my interview sound file (lousy audio, natch) to work, but it ain't pretty.

To use an HTML verifier with my HTML pages (wait, scratch that, first I want to know what a verifier will tell me, and whether it will be worthwhile.)

Fran / Palani / da Talking_Mule

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audio player on an html site

Submitted by jeff on Wed, 2008-04-30 16:10.

Looks like you've been doing some good experimentation over in your worldbriges.info space, Fran.

 As far as embedding audio into an html page (as opposed to a blog or site that used a content management system like Wordpress [Edublogs.org] or Drupal [EFL537.com]) there are a variety of embed codes you can use. Below are some examples and links:

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<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/3247397568-audio-player.swf?audioUrl=http://yourURL.com/file.mp3" width="400" height="27" allowscriptaccess="never" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="window" flashvars="playerMode=embedded" />

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   <object width="125" height="18" align="middle" data="http:/yourURL.com/audioplayer.swf?src=http://yourURL.com/file.mp3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
    <param value="http://yourURL.com/audioplayer.swf?src=http://yourURL.com/file.mp3" name="movie" />
  </object>
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(in this example, you would need to find a flash player (audioplayer.mp3) and upoad it to your site)

More info at:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/html-embed-mp3-songs-podcasts-musi...

http://www.macloo.com/examples/audio_player/

I wouldn't be too worried about html validity at this point.  If it looks they way you want it to, that's good enough for now.