The Song is You

Thumbs up for victory!

- The Song Is You.mp3
You know how when you get a new toy and all you want to do is play with it?
Cool feeling isn't it?

Well this post has nothing to do with that. Sorry.
In fact, this post has more to do with old toys...the kind you've had for a long time, the ones that you clutched to your chest when first they were new.

Reaper. My beloved music editor. My wicked good taskmaster. my music technology mutha-fletcher.

I've been away. Reaper didn't come with me.

I was building things...with tools that i held in my hands, saws and drills, clamps and hammers, not virtual tools, no VSTI's. Although come to think of it, it might come in handy to have a virtual hammer; I'd much rather have clobbered my finger with a virtual hammer than the 22-ounce number i did do it with.

Anyway, i dove back in today, back into the glossy pages of computer music recording. it was no end of fun for me. and although i'm not sure if Reaper missed me as much as i, it, we did shake hands and come out fighting for the lion's share of this mid-january wednesday.

The tune that happened to be on the top of my music is the one i chose to break my fast: a Jerome Kern classic called "The Song is You." It's a good thing i chose this particular tune because it's level of complexity, while belying the amount of tweaking it took to round up and capture, was comparatively low. i still struggled.

patience and perseverance was the order of the day. the methodical plodding offered weird comfort. although not exactly enjoyable, it was at least familiar. Moving from roadblock to stupefying barriers, virtual rampart to real frustrations, i lumbered through these like a drunken giant returning from his nightly pillage. it was inexorable. i burned through an entire day.

but in the end, i got it down. Quality? Questionable.

but in the end, i got it down.

Stupid-Easy Instructions for Adding Audio to Blog

I did it! Damn it. I did it!

This is how you can do it too. I have to think there is an easier way, a way with less steps, not written for the Department of Redundancy Department but i don't know of one. That's why i wrote this.

OK. Fasten your seatbelts. Here we go.

One way to add audio to specific posts on Google Blogger using zShare host site.

These directions presume an existing post to which you wish to add an audio file.

Go to http://www.zshare.net and sign up for a free account.

Go to http://www.Blogger.com

Dial up your blog.
Click 'Edit Posts' tab.

Choose post to which you wish to add audio file.

Open another window and navigate to your zShare account.
Follow directions to upload an audio file.

After file is successfully uploaded, click on the hyperlink associated with it on the page. This will play the file and (on the same page), give you an option to link the file to a blog site. Click on the Blogger logo to automatically send the audio file's Html code to the site.

On this page, (in the Html window), you will see the code string that corresponds to the audio file you just uploaded. Copy this code by selecting and copying it using the keystrokes appropriate for your specific computer (mine is a Mac so I press the command key and the letter c simultaneously to copy something on the screen. Ctrl C on PCs).

Go back to your blog and navigate to the post to which you want to add the audio file by clicking on 'Edit Post.'

In Blogger's Html Content window put your cursor at the beginning of the post (in front of all other text) and paste the information you just copied from zShare. (Command V on Macs, Ctrl V on PCs)

Click 'Preview' to see your new audio code. You should see a hyperlink.

Note: If you do not want the zShare logo to show on your blog, you can delete this in the first string of code. I wouldn't mess with much else unless you feel confident you can deal with whatever happens when you start messing with computer code language magic mumbo jumbo.

Ok. Good. Now you have time for dinner.

Close your computer and walk away. For now.