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Spiralcat Entertainment > Webmastering > Animation With Sound on Office Live 

 

 

 

 

 without Flash

 

 

 

 

 

I have been looking for the best solution for playing mp3 and video files, without having to get a bank loan and buy Flash.

 

This isn't easy, especially with the limitations of office live's online interface. But in most respects my Microsoft Office Live site is excellent and I think it is worth perservering 

 

I have made progress, which is quite something given the limitations of office live, if you mouse over the pink alien on the left there is only silence,

but if you mouse over the one on the right you hear a pleasing space monkey sound I found on soundsnap.

Cool!!

I found this solution here on the office live community > http://myofficelivecommunity.com/discuss/forums/t/4330.aspx many thanks to StudioAllen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next problem was to compress an mp3 down to the smallest size possible (which is not easy as mp3 is already compressed if you put one in a zip file it often ends up getting bigger).

 

I chopped a beautiful song by Barbara Stanzl and Markus Kienzl that I have permission to use and used CDDRipper XP to turn the WAV into an mp3 (but I set the mp3 encoder options to something low, a bitrate of 56 or something) resulting in a file that is only half a megabite. Let's see if the alien will sing like Barbara Stanzl now.

 

 

Wow it worked, just hover over the alien with your mouse for a few seconds to listen to her sing. When you take the mouse away she stops singing. An exelent animation trick which is going to liven up my website no end. The more graphics are hopping up and down and making noises, the better I like it.

 

 

 

 

Great that works! Now a link to where the album containing this track can be bought. Excellent and a link enhacer that pops out a few details. Heck. Just pasting the link enhancer code after the picture code diddnt work.