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Sample Audio-enabled Web Album
Viewing Hints

This album is best viewed with your browser set to full screen mode.

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape 7, press the F11 key to switch between normal and full screen viewing.

If you are using Netscape 6 or Netscape 7:
    From the View Menu, Hide the Personal and Navigation toolbars.

On the Index pages, click on any thumbnail to view a larger image.

If any page is incomplete or badly formatted (often the result of a slow CD-Rom drive or internet connection), try refreshing the screen -

  • if using Internet Explorer press F5 (Refresh);
  • if using Netscape, press Ctrl+R (Reload).

Failure of the Audio Control panel to display in Netscape is a sign that there is no audio file for the page.

  • This is not a problem - you don't need to record an audio file for every page of an audio-enabled album. Depending on the operating system and browser version you use, the audio controls may fail to display, may be grayed-out, or may appear normal when no sound file is present for the page.

Audio Play Setup

The audio features of this web album require specific support on your computer.  The features have tested successfully in the following environments:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 5.5 and 6 with Windows Media Player installed. 
  • Netscape 6.2 and 7 with Apple QuickTime Player installed. 

If QuickTimePlayer is installed, but no sound is heard, check that QuickTime Player is enabled for the MIME file type "wav" as follows:

  1. Open QuickTime Player from the Start Menu. 
  2. From the QuickTime Player Edit menu, open Preferences and then QuickTime Preferences. 
  3. Click on the MIME Settings button.
  4. Expand the Audio group by clicking on the plus-sign to the left of it. 
  5. Find the line labeled WAVE Audio File, and insure that its check box has an X in it - click the box with your mouse if it does not. 

Adding Audio Commentary to your web album

You can add audio commentary to your audio-enabled web album.  The album Home page (default.htm), the index pages and each single image page are audio-enabled.  

  1. When each page is loaded, the page searches for a wav-format audio file with a specific name.  The Home page searches for a file named default.wav.  Each index page (indexpage1.htm and following) searches for an audio file named index#.wav, where # stands for the page number.  The file named index1.wav will play from indexpage1.  Each image page searches for a file named <image name>.wav.  For example, if the image file that the page displays is named 1972_vacation_001.jpg, then the page will look for an audio file named 1972_vacation_001.jpg.wav. 
  2. To record sound files, your computer must have a sound card and a microphone.  You must also have sound recording software, like Microsoft Sound Recorder (included with Windows, but it has a 60 second recording limit) or Sound Editor that is included with Roxio's EZ CD Creator Platinum (http://www.roxio.com/).
  3. To end up with a computer CD that includes both the web album and the audio commentary, your computer must be able to burn CD's, and have sufficient disk space to hold both the basic web album and the audio tracks you want to add.  
  4. Create a new directory on your computer (any name will do - maybe AudioAlbum) and copy the web album from the CD to this directory.  The web album consists of all the files in the root directory of the CD, and the "images" directory.  
  5. In your web album directory, create a directory named "wav" - all lower case characters.  For example, if you web album directory is on the C: drive at C:\AudioAlbum, it will contain C:\AudioAlbum\images and the wav directory will be at C:\AudioAlbum\wav.  
  6. Record wav audio files and place them in the .wav directory, giving them the appropriate name as described in #1 above.  To create an efficient audio data stream, we recommend that you record your wave files using an 8000 hz - mono sampling rate. 
  7. You don't need to record an audio file for each page.  Pages that have no associated audio file will display the audio control console with all buttons grayed-out. 
  8. Test your audio pages by running the web album from the hard disk - load the web album's home page (default.htm) or any of the image pages (e.g. imagepage11.htm) into your browser.  You can do this by double-clicking on the file name, or by using the File-Open-Browse menu features from Internet Explorer or Netscape.  
  9. When it is working to your satisfaction, burn a new CD.  Don't burn the web album directory (c:\AudioAlbum in our example) to the CD - just burn the CONTENTS of the web album directory to the CD.  When you are done the root directory of the new CD should contain the default.htm file, all the other files at the same level, the images directory and the wav directory.  The files autorun.inf and start.bat are there so that the web album will start automatically when the CD is inserted in computers that support the autorun function.  

 

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