Make your own SWF files

Many times you might have been shocked by your peers when you visit their scrapbooks. A song or a tone is playing at the background and you have no idea where it is coming from. You also want this in your scrapbook but due to less amount of tutorials on the web you are not able to sort it out how it really works!

This tutorial aims at providing you all the basics and the tools that you need for creating your own personal musical scrapbook!

Tools that you would need: MP3 Steam Creator and nothing else! Please note that I am giving the tutorial only for Mp3 files since 95% of the listeners prefer this format. If you have a file different from Mp3, you have to first convert it into Mp3 by using any of the free converters available on the net.

The Need:

You may have a favorite song that you want to share with your friends or customers etc on the internet. They can listen to music in Internet explorer or Firefox without installing any music player(the key feature of swf file). MP3 Steam Creator is designed for such purpose. It creates streaming Flash audio from mp3 file on the fly.

Procedure (general):

1. Download Mp3 stream creator. Install it.

2. Add your mp3 or wav music files by clicking the “add file” button. Or you can do a search in windows explorer for *.mp3 and drag drop the files into the list box of Mp3 stream creator.

3. In the option tab, you can select the play control style also (no need to change them).

4. Click “Convert” to do the conversion.

5. After conversion is finished, for each mp3 file, there will be three files (Suppose the mp3 file is 1.mp3 then the files are 1.swf, 1.swf.html and 1.swf.ctrl.html).

6. You can open 1.swf.ctrl.html in Internet Explorer of Firefox to see the play control and try playing your music.

7. If step 6 works well, open your own webpage in an html editor, copy the content of 1.swf.ctrl.html and paste them into a place in your webpage so that the play control can be embeded into your page.

8. Finally upload the 1.swf and your modified webpage to your web server.

That is it. You now have a streaming audio player running.

Procedure (Orkut Specific):

1. Follow steps (1 to 5) as above.

2. Upload 1.swf on www.googlepages.com (you can use any other service also - but prefer google).

3. Note the link of the swf file. It would be something like this (http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf)

4. Now open your scrapbook and scrap yourself the following code.
<embed src="http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf"> (Replace http://oa.addons.googlepages.com/1.swf with your own swf link)

You are done! You can even scrap the above code to your friend's SB so that when he opens up his SB, he would listen up to your song.

Suggested Reading:
http://orkutaddons.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-voice-in-scrap.html