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Audio help, tips, and techniques
Permalinks
Whenever you refer to files at archive.org,
use our permalink-style
form for the file within the item. It is of the form
https://archive.org/download/IDENTIFIER/FILE
Good:
https://archive.org/download/etree/etree_itemimage.png
Great job! If we ever move your item around on our servers or migrate
our storage system, you're covered for life!
Bad:
https://ia802307.us.archive.org/8/items/etree/etree_itemimage.png
Uh-oh! If we ever move your item around on our servers or migrate
our storage system, this link could stop working.
Audio embedding
This allows you to setup an audio player that serves an item from
archive.org on another site like Wordpress, a blog, or a website.
NOTE: We've tested EMBED on tumblr.com, boingboing.net, blogspot.com blogs, and
Wordpress blogs.
Feature notes:
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Playlists
As of mid-January 2012, we support playlists! (see below)
How to embed and options:
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Example full embed code:
Show me!
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You can see our new
permalink-style
embed codes with our new audio player.
Find the player's "controlbar"
(where the play/pause, seeking, time, etc. are located).
Now look for the Internet Archive logo (looks like:
)
in the "controlbar" and click it
for the iframe-based embed code and the linked image
"Embedding Tips & Help" (to a page with other examples).
Some sample ways to customize the behaviour of the "embed" urls,
used within the embed code above, follow.
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Embeds an audio item.
If the item contains 2+ playable uploaded files, this embeds
all of the files within the item by default, sorted "naturally"
(mostly alphabetically, via our backend PHP code):
Show me!
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Embed audio with "autoplay":
Show me!
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Embed audio with clickable "playlist":
Show me!
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Embed audio with clickable "playlist" and specific list height:
Show me!
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Embed audio with clickable "playlist" *and* "autoplay":
Show me!
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Embed a single specific audio file for item with 2+
audio files:
Notice you use the name of the "original" audio file that was uploaded
(and we figure out what additional formats we were able to
transcode/"derive"
from and then figure out what the audio player can handle).
NOTE: using a *different* item with 2+ audio files, to show
specific single file usage...
Show me!
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Advanced/rare: Embed videos or audio from more than one item into a playlist:
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There is a basic example here
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EVEN SIMPLER text-based simple file:
basic embeddable, responsive playlist here
(try "view source"!)