W/NW: Your Audio Slideshow

Er, Rich, don't know if it's just me but it appears to take forever to download (I gave up after approx 2 minutes), I think you need a tweak. Johnny.

Sorry to hear. I just checked and it downloaded in about 25 seconds for me (click the 'play icon' in the lower left corner).

That's fantastic. I've been playing with soundslides too but didn't really know where to host it.

A great slideshow. Thanks much for sharing.

The playback kicked in fast enough for me and the slides looked great. However -- and I know there's a huge issue of personal taste here -- I would admit to simply finding the music in this instance intrusive rather than adding to the experience... Nice pictures, though.

OK, twas temporary glitch on my first look. I found myself with slight sensory overload, wanting to listen to the lyrics at the same time as viewing, but great shots as ever Rich.

Hi Rich,

good pics there. I have a question for you: how do you deal with copyright for the song(s) you are using? I was planning to start getting in this multimedia stuff, but I was quite worried about getting sued from some record label...

Rich

Loved it. Great shots. The music was not intrusive in my opinion and added a nice touch to the photos.

It got me thinking about what I can do with the legions of negatives that I scanned and are sitting around.

I am an attorney who has an adoption practice. I deal with both pregnant women and the adoptive parents. I have been thinking about doing what you did, for a long time.

Thanks for waking me up and getting me thinking.

Mikal

Thanks Rich, nice. Will try too. Too slow for me at dial up actually. Where do you download the song?

Very excellent. Great integration of images, words, and music. All coming together seamlessly creates a compelling story.

Rich, great photos. Not sure about the song. I think I would have preferred some narration.

I've got a couple of slide shows up on my Flickr page:http://www.flickr.com/photos/1pt4/sets. No audio, but I've been thinking of doing some narration to go along with a few of them.

Very good job, Rich.

For free, legal music you can always use iRate that allows you to gather music from a number of independent music sources that allow for legal downloading and listening to some good music. Some more information about legal music here: Info

Matt, I agree - words would had been more effective than music and a great example of this is here: Brenda Kenneally. Click on 'Money Power Respect"

Two more thoughts, Rich:

First, I'm not sure, on reflection, that the text of your headers related consistently to the photo-stream, either on the AIDS history/awareness side or on the "vibrant community" side. While noting this, I must say it did not meaningfully diminish my overall appreciation of the presentation, nor my enthusiasm for it.

Second, the references and links to the underlying tools and resources you relied upon are genuinely appreciated. That represents the best spirit of a Forum like this, and you should be commended for it.

Michal, thanks. Yes, being that it's my first attempt at something like this I'm sure it's VERY far from perfect so I also really appreciate feedback like yours.

I'd like to do more of these slideshows but the next time record ambient sound and voices and/or narrate it. We'll see.

Btw, I realized that one downside with webNG.com is that the free bandwidth one get is fairly small (about 40MB/eight hours). The show I had put up resulted in a bandwidth usage of 280MB+ in that timeframe and is overallocated at this time. Having said that it takes about five minutes to create a duplicate so here is an alternative link: 94114

Rich, You said you would love to see others slideshows. I very much enjoyed looking at your photos, so it's only fair I share a slide show of a few shots I made a while ago accompanying Zen monks in Kyoto on their begging meditation. All photos were shot with a Digilux2. Regards, Dirk

Dirk, thanks for sharing - some really great b&w photos in that slideshow. (Btw, I got the link to work if I changed it to this: Dirk's link). I really liked the last photo of the slideshow and how the music faded out as it came up. Nice.

Good to hear you enjoyed the photos, Rich. Thanks much for correcting the link. Dirk

Hi There,

The WEBNG link for hosting of soundslides is a great tip, but I cannot get it running. I uploaded the soundlides files and all I get is a green page on my URL.

Help !

Thanks a lot Robert

For a non-techi 2hrs fiddling with the computer and it?s done ...

http://robhall.webng.com/SlideShow%20-%20Color/index.html

Cridits to all ! Cordially Robert (Bavaria)