Sally’s Kitchen & Stuff

All these steps are FREE.

1. Get some music. What format is it? We need some mp3s, onstant bitrate. Rip/Convert with CDEX. VBRs will NOT do.

2. Get some hosting. I use myfilehut.com. Upload your file.

3. Get the mp3 player . Unzip it to a temporary directory on your harddrive. Here’s a link to the page of the file.

4. Open the mp3player.xml file in notepad/textpad.

5. So here’s what SHOULD be in your xml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<player showDisplay="yes" showPlaylist="yes" autoStart="yes">
    <song path="ABSOLUTE PATH TO MP3 FILE" title="Title of song" />
    <song path="ABSOLUTE PATH TO MP3 FILE" title="Title of song" />
</player>

Change the purple text to links to YOUR file. Got another song? Copy and paste the line.

In myfilehut, you can go into "my files" and right click on any of your files then > copy link location, to get the absolute path.

Try not to put any surprising characters in the title. Stuff like %$*&^#~ could POTENTIALLY screw it up.

6. Upload all the "mp3player" files. Note: the mp3s and mp3 player files must reside on the SAME server.

7. Link it via your profile.

In friendster, use My Profile > edit profile > customize > embed media box. Copy the whole chunk in, and change the purple text to the links to your files.

<embed allowScriptAccess="never"
src="ABSOLUTE LINK TO YOUR mp3player.swf file"
align="middle" menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="Transparent"
width="270" height="270" name="index" allowScriptAccess="never"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashvars="playlist=ABSOLUTE LINK TO YOUR mp3player.xml file" />

Notes.

• If you’re using other servers, make sure it’s FAST or tells you that it supports streaming. If it’s too slow, it shows an N%N error.
• If the mp3 file sounds "chipmunky," re-encode it with CDEX so that it’s Constant Bit Rate.
• Absolute links point to INTERNET addresses, not your computer. It starts with "http://" not "c:\" If you have backslashes "\" in the filename, we’ve got a problem.
• You can check all your absolute paths by using them as an url. Copy and paste it into the address bar, press enter. If it works, it’s not broken.
• Don’t leave out the "/" at the end of the tag, if you’re an html wannabe monkey, you might be tempted to. It’s xml, and we need to escape closing every tag by "/". If you leave it out, it won’t work.

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