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Embedding a smaller SoundCloud player

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moonSoundcloud has easy ways to embed music players in a web site, especially WordPress sites. However, these players can use up a lot of screen space on a page, especially the players for “sets” (several tracks per set).

So here are two special configurations that I particularly like. The top one puts the track image behind the entire player, while the bottom one puts the track image on the left side like an “album cover.” The upper player requires a height of at least 140px to look good; the lower requires 110px.

<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false &visual=true” width=”100%” height=”140″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>

<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”110″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>

<iframe src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/240383307&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true &show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”140″ frameborder=”no” scrolling=”no”></iframe>

<iframe width=”100%” height=”110″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”no” src=”https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/239028147&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false &show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”></iframe>

Max/MSP project

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max-msp-project“Max/MSP” is a computer app that implements an on-screen visual programming environment in which you can “wire” together components that make and process sound or logic. You could think of it as programming, but it’s unlike the old procedural programming you probably just thought of. It’s object-oriented, but more than that it includes many components that are paced by a clock. And the “programming” is carried out visually by creating and moving objects on the screen and patching (you might say “wiring”) them together. You might have a metronome beating four times a second, for example, and it could trigger sounds or actions that it’s wired to. [Read more…]

Life Becomes a Dream

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cloudI have many times had the dream that I signed up for a course and now it’s the first day of finals week, and I say “oh shit I have this final tomorrow and I never went to the class.” This particular anxiety dream plagued me until I was maybe 40 years old. I hear that variants of this dream are very common. [Read more…]

Putting music on SoundCloud

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Ten years ago, maybe, MySpace was the place to put your music. There’s still a lot of stuff there.

Today, the people I’m meeting are putting their music on SoundCloud. It’s easy to upload, and the player is sweet. Nice visuals. Each to click to play. When you’re at the soundcloud site, the player minimizes down to the bottom of the window and keeps playing while you look for other things to explore. I started putting things on SoundCloud this week. A player can also be embedded in your own web site, and there are lots of shapes, visuals and functionality. [Read more…]