I did the entire thing myself, including where I taped a mic to my chest and ran until I got my heart rate really going. (I think it was to the other side of my office room ). I layered in and timed in the increasing pitter patter after first laying down the music. In fact there are lots of layers with wind and various sound effects that are mostly homemade.

The reading I did in one take, and yes, there is at least one mistake in it which I left in. My sister didn’t notice until I pointed it out. This was the first time she heard me do this kind of thing and she was very pleased with how it turned out.

As you know, I love creativity, which is another way of saying I love Creation! I love it in all the many varied ways it can be expressed, or in how it expresses itself!

Brother John
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

And Author is correct- you have a good radio voice, John. This sounded like that actor, Vincent Price almost. Goosebumps!
I wonder if something like this would work with dilapidated ‘Blogger’ format… which I dislike.

One take? Nice work. Super spooky goodness…

I have plenty of commercial audio software but… (believe it or not), I like good old Open Source Audacity! It’s just downright comfortable compared to other products I own.

I’d so love to branch away from Medical Systems programming. I’ve been a software developer for over 30 years and I’m pretty good at it… but that’s a long time to be doing the same thing. I really enjoy multimedia, digital art, audio, music, etc. The whole media thing.

And with an extremely disabled wife, working from home on a full time basis would be great!

You have similar interests do you not?

Brother John
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania USA

Good job!

Here are a few free sites I just looked up that might get you started. (My Comcast Account gives me lots of free space which I use. I also use Photobucket for my pictures and other images). But you could look into these.

http://www.xdrive.com/storage-plans/
http://www.filefactory.com/info/faq.php
http://www.fileden.com/
http://www.snapdrive.net/index.php
http://www.4shared.com/

And if you want to use legal music by other people, there are lots of places to try:

http://mashable.com/2007/10/31/free-and-legal-music/
http://fingertipsmusic.blogspot.com/
http://www.last100.com/2007/08/17/10-sites-for-free-legal-music/
http://www.redferret.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

And for older music that is now in the Public Domain:

http://www.pdinfo.com/

I’m in complete awe! Thank you for such carefully written instructions. They are very clear.

Just one problem – “followed by the full path to your audio link” – where do I get an audio link from?

Sorry if I sound useless – I admit to being non-technical! Can you explain the audio link bit to me please?

I’ll revisit again to see if you’ve posted more.

Many thanks so far though ….. you’re a star!

DS

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I thought I’d open up this post (in image form) and show you what’s inside. I’ll include a link at the end of the comment.

In a nutshell, WordPress (only in posts), lets you place a special “tag” that will build a music player. Two things you should know:

This “tag” will do absolutely nothing while you are editing your post.

You will insert this “tag” while in “VISUAL” mode, NOT in “HTML” mode.

The actual “tag”  looks something like this:

[audio link-to-your-audio-file-here.mp3]

It’s a left bracket followed by the word: audio, followed by a single space, followed by the full path to your audio link, followed by a final right bracket. (Notice that there are only two (2) brackets in use).

When you finally publish your post, WordPress will read the “tag” and will automatically build an audio player for you set to play the specified MP3 file. This will then appear as it did in my final post.

Here’s the promised link.

Brother John
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania

Would you conider doing a step by step, idiot proof post on how to insert this gadget in a post? How? Where from? OK?