How to make it downloadable, how to put it on Youtube

Delmont

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Hey!

I want to apply for this: John O'Hara grant

So I'm wondering about hurdles 6 and 7:

- How do I make a recording downloadable?
- How do I make a Youtube (probably with some JPEG images fading in and out)?

What do you know?

Thanks!
 
You set it up on a web platform - if you want to make money from it, then you set up your own with specialist software on a server and learn how to manage it, and take money, or if you want to give it away, simply make it freely downloadable from any web platform - i.e. upload it to your own www.mybrilliantmusic.com, and have it simply as a downloadable file - as in they go to


Any of the usual editing programmes on PC and Mac will let you load in an audio file and then add some video or stills plus a fade or blends. What do you have on your computer?
 
For number 6, looks like they want you on bandcamp. Sign up at bandcamp.com. upload your tunes there. For the youtube thing. pics might work, or just a black screen, but yeah, it's gotta be a video to be on youtube.
 
You set it up on a web platform - if you want to make money from it, then you set up your own with specialist software on a server and learn how to manage it, and take money, or if you want to give it away, simply make it freely downloadable from any web platform - i.e. upload it to your own www.mybrilliantmusic.com, and have it simply as a downloadable file - as in they go to


Any of the usual editing programmes on PC and Mac will let you load in an audio file and then add some video or stills plus a fade or blends. What do you have on your computer?
Hm. I have a web site: Home. It has over a hundred songs on it.

I'd like to make songs freely downloadable, but I don't know how. That's my question.

And - add video stills to what? And how do I move it to Youtube?

=O.

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For number 6, looks like they want you on bandcamp. Sign up at bandcamp.com. upload your tunes there. For the youtube thing. pics might work, or just a black screen, but yeah, it's gotta be a video to be on youtube.
I'll check out Bandcamp and see if I can make sense of it.
 
I don't see anything that would prevent using SoundCloud.com as a download platform. You just have to enable it in the Permissions "tab" when you upload your music file or any time you edit it. You'd need a SoundCloud account, of course, but the basic one is free.

For YouTube, you have to create an account. If you have a Gmail address, you already have an account, but you can use any email account to set it up. Once you have an account, you upload your video file there and give it Public access. Done.

Creating the video is a matter of picking the right software, which may already be on your own computer. I used to do it with Windows Movie Maker, but I've heard that application has been removed from Windows. I would use iMovie or Photos on my Mac. But, basically, collect a bunch of photos (JPEG files) that you want to include, pictures related to your song theme, of you performing, I don't know, but have them sorted and in a folder in order. Create a "movie" project in your software app, drop all the photos in, add your song as the soundtrack, and then adjust the length of time each photo shows so you fill up the video to match the song. Usually you can globally apply a single transition, like a crossfade, to quickly finish things, and just add a title and fade to black.
 
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I don't see anything that would prevent using SoundCloud.com as a download platform. You just have to enable it in the Permissions "tab" when you upload your music file or any time you edit it. You'd need a SoundCloud account, of course, but the basic one is free.

For YouTube, you have to create an account. If you have a Gmail address, you already have an account, but you can use any email account to set it up. Once you have an account, you upload your video file there and give it Public access. Done.

Creating the video is a matter of picking the right software, which may already be on your own computer. I used to do it with Windows Movie Maker, but I've heard that application has been removed from Windows. I would use iMovie or Photos on my Mac. But, basically, collect a bunch of photos (JPEG files) that you want to include, pictures related to your song theme, of you performing, I don't know, but have them sorted and in a folder in order. Create a "movie" project in your software app, drop all the photos in, add your song as the soundtrack, and then adjust the length of time each photo shows so you fill up the video to match the song. Usually you can globally apply a single transition, like a crossfade, to quickly finish things, and just add a title and fade to black.
Thanks, Keith! Those actually all sound like things I can manage. This computer has iMovie, so I might actually have everything I need. Yee-ha!
 
Thanks, Keith! Those actually all sound like things I can manage. This computer has iMovie, so I might actually have everything I need. Yee-ha!
If you have iMovie, then you're on a Mac, so I'll now suggest Photos. It has a very easy way to do this, so I'd suggest using that, personally.

Make sure your song is in iTunes. Then, just create a photo album in Photos with the still pictures (JPEG files) you want, then use File->Create Slideshow. On the right side of the interface you can select the background music (your song), and then click the clock icon and select "Fit to Music" as the slideshow duration. Note that the very first picture has a T on it - use that to edit the title text. Choose the transition you want, then click Preview to view the result. Adjust number of photos or transitions until you're happy, then click Export. Check the video that's created is Ok, then upload to YouTube.
 
I'm a bit confused - the page you linked to has widgets to allow streaming the music hosted there. Just create a download area and they can download the music instead of streaming it? Have I missed something?Re: the video. You use a video editing programme - many computers have one, Windows Movie Maker, Mac users have something similar. Basic video editors that can allow you to bring in audio and video, and arrange it on a timeline. You then organise it, save it then export the video as a video file - which you upload to Youtube. That's pretty much it. You use it much like the software you used for your website - you can stretch or shrink the stills, cut and paste and add effects and transitions. Exactly how depends on your software.
 
I'm a bit confused - the page you linked to has widgets to allow streaming the music hosted there. Just create a download area and they can download the music instead of streaming it? Have I missed something?Re: the video. You use a video editing programme - many computers have one, Windows Movie Maker, Mac users have something similar. Basic video editors that can allow you to bring in audio and video, and arrange it on a timeline. You then organise it, save it then export the video as a video file - which you upload to Youtube. That's pretty much it. You use it much like the software you used for your website - you can stretch or shrink the stills, cut and paste and add effects and transitions. Exactly how depends on your software.
Yup. They need to download music to stream it, so I need to make my song downloadable.

If you look above, Keith has explained clearly how to do it.
 
Keith suggested Soundcloud, which is fine - BUT - this means putting the code on your website to link to the Soundcloud player, when you already have the file on YOUR server, so all you need is to add the download link - you don't have to use external hosting as you are already hosting it yourself. A very simple 'click here to download the track' label.
 
Keith suggested Soundcloud, which is fine - BUT - this means putting the code on your website to link to the Soundcloud player, when you already have the file on YOUR server, so all you need is to add the download link - you don't have to use external hosting as you are already hosting it yourself. A very simple 'click here to download the track' label.
Hm. Maybe Weebly (my website host) will tell me how to create that label. I sent them a query yesterday but haven't heard back yet.
 
Keith suggested Soundcloud, which is fine - BUT - this means putting the code on your website to link to the Soundcloud player, when you already have the file on YOUR server, so all you need is to add the download link - you don't have to use external hosting as you are already hosting it yourself. A very simple 'click here to download the track' label.
Ok, well, I read this requirement:
6. Song must be released for download (free or paid, on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp, or other similar platforms). ...​
and simply figured putting the song on SoundCloud would be sufficient, i.e., there's no reason to modify OP's own website to provide the download location. It just seemed like more work than using a service (of which there are many) that already provides that capability. And, TBH, I'm not sure putting it on your own, private page, meets the spirit of that requirement. Further, I don't think there's any requirement that [MENTION=195471]Delmont[/MENTION] modify his own website. I suspect most entrants don't even have a website of their own, other than a FB page, perhaps (where I would put a link, actually).
 
Yup. They need to download music to stream it, so I need to make my song downloadable.

Not really.

If you put an mp3 on your own website and make a link to it on one of your pages, it is downloadable by definition.

It's the other way around. To make sure the visitors can hear your music, but not easily download it, you need to jump through hoops and use widgets, or javascript or...

Real streaming is another thing. That needs a special server. Real streaming adapts to the line quality. If the visitor is on a good broadband connection, he or she will get a higher quality stream. If that user is on a poor connection, he will still be able to hear the music, but at a lower bitrate. And even when the connection changes while he is listening, the streaming server will adapt. But that's a completely different ballgame. That's what Youtube and Soundcloud do, to name just a few.
 
Ok, well, I read this requirement:
6. Song must be released for download (free or paid, on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp, or other similar platforms). ...​
and simply figured putting the song on SoundCloud would be sufficient, i.e., there's no reason to modify OP's own website to provide the download location. It just seemed like more work than using a service (of which there are many) that already provides that capability. And, TBH, I'm not sure putting it on your own, private page, meets the spirit of that requirement. Further, I don't think there's any requirement that [MENTION=195471]Delmont[/MENTION] modify his own website. I suspect most entrants don't even have a website of their own, other than a FB page, perhaps (where I would put a link, actually).
Just heard back from my web provider. I'd have to pay $300 a year to make songs downloadable. The song is already on Reverbnation.com. I didn't realize that meant it was downloadable. If it does, I just need a video.

I just buy CDs and LPs and listen to the radio and online videos. I've never downloaded a song, so I don't know what's involved. (If I want to return to a video, I just bookmark it.)
 
Not really.

If you put an mp3 on your own website and make a link to it on one of your pages, it is downloadable by definition.

It's the other way around. To make sure the visitors can hear your music, but not easily download it, you need to jump through hoops and use widgets, or javascript or....
Interesting. To post mp3s on my site so people can hear them, I just click on them and drag them from my desktop onto the web page and drop them where I want them. So the only hoops are a click, a drag, and a drop. That's three hoops and no widgets or javascript or . . . .

But they don't seem to be downloadable.

Here's my website: Home. There are about 120 mp3s there. If you can download one, tell me how you did it.

Thanks!
 
OK so I went to your site...pretty good for not knowing how to code websites (Weebly) I found all kinds of spots where I could "listen" to your music and me being a little techy could have easily recorded them with audacity thus get a file of them but....I found nowhere where I could just freely download them. It isn't rocket science and it is nothing more than hosting the Mp3 "somewhere" in the cloud and then knowing how to write the code to make a downloadable link on your website. The file can be hosted anywhere...The link allows people access to it. I am sure if you google "downloadable link" + "weebly" you or whomever built your site can figure out how to add the downloadable links.

I host most of my files with Google cause google isn't going anywhere and for my personal stuff it is free . I also use what is called "back up and sync" (used to be called google drive) which I pay @ $5 a month for for my business.

On the Mp3 aside from hosting at a place like google you can just upload them to Soundcloud or Soundclick or a dozen other music hosting sites for free and make them available through those systems to be downloadable...I know soundclick allows you to restrict or let them download...

With regard to youtube videos it is REALLY pretty simple as previously noted Windows Movie Maker is no longer available for download or supported..( maybe it is on your computer) I found it pretty easy to do still picture videos with it...

I would just drop the pictures in and the audio file in and mess around with placement and effects...I banged these out in a few hours including hunting down and absconding the images :eek: to use :guitar:

You save the file and with a gmail account log into youtube and upload them...they host em for free...Then you have a youtube video to share with the world...

Below are links to some videos I did with it for some of my tunes.

Like a rolling stone

Stay with me


Here is a link to a article / reviews of free video editing software in lieu of Windows Movie maker


Good luck!
 
Just heard back from my web provider. I'd have to pay $300 a year to make songs downloadable. The song is already on Reverbnation.com. I didn't realize that meant it was downloadable. If it does, I just need a video....
It's easy enough to test it yourself, just go to your ReverbNation page without logging in and see if you can download it. It might not be the default permission, like SoundCloud.

I'm going to say again, perhaps more clearly, that the language of the requirement says it is released for ... for download on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Bandcamp, or other similar platforms. I just don't understand why others here, well-intentioned I'm sure, are insisting you put it on a personal webpage that IMHO is not one of those similar platforms.
 
Here's my website: Home. There are about 120 mp3s there. If you can download one, tell me how you did it.

As I said, it's just obfuscated. Take one look at the html code and there's the link:



Just open the link, or do a "save as" directly.

Some widgets are harder, because they don't show the link as html, but hack it into pieces, usually with Javascript. Like Youtube. But that just takes someone to reverse engineer the obfuscation and make a script.

And then there are the analog and digital holes:

- Analog: listen to the song, re-record it.
- Digital: route the stream to a "recording" tool.

If you want the visitor to be able to hear the song, it will be downloadable.

Like the music, BTW!
 
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