A reader recently asked me if I knew how to make podcasts. I didn’t, but I did a little looking around and discovered a cool site called SoundCloud that makes it dead easy to record anything and store it online. I signed up and created this sample podcast. Then I saved it in my public folder in Dropbox. Now, just by inserting the link here, I have created a link to the file: My SoundCloud Experiment.
There’s a better way to do it. It looks much cooler if you embed the code. Here’s how it’s done:
- On soundcloud, put your cursor over “You” at the top and open “Tracks” to display your track.
- In the upper left corner of your track, you’ll see a “Share” button. Click it.
- At the bottom of the display that pops up, you’ll see the embed link. Click inside it and it will be highlighted. Copy it (I use control/C to copy or you can use edit/copy).
- Now go to your WordPress blog post. Change from the “Visual” tab to the “HTML” tab and paste the embed code there (control/V or edit/paste). You should see a long string of code starting with “<object height=”81″ width=”100%”> and ending with </span>. It’s done.
- Switch back to Visual and you should see a wide box with yellow filler and an “f” (for Flash) logo in the centre. After you publish, this will turn into the stream bar.
My Introduction to SoundCloud by RobSchneiderOz
That’s pretty cool. I’m not sure how much free space you get on SoundCloud, but my guess is that it’s plenty for short podcasts, since they also have a facility for storing music files. I’ll keep you updated with my progress, but so far I think I’ve stumbled across a winner.
SHARE