Puttiing sermon audio online

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Updated instructions are here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?678-Puttiing-sermon-audio-online&p=31839&viewfull=1#post31839

[Zach Wingo]

That's a very interesting way to do thing. I personally prefer a web-based form where I can fill in the information...just like uploading a video to Youtube or something similar.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Updated instructions are here: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php?678-Puttiing-sermon-audio-online&p=31839&viewfull=1#post31839

[Gina Stevenson]

Oh, man! Wish I'd known of this before my crash recently (just since the switch from nearly 12.5 yrs of dial-up to DSL). There are some things I've lost that I tho't were backed up, but don't work when taken from a jump drive back to the computer. For instance, one thing I reeeally do miss -- I'd been used to picking out desktop files quickly from their color -- is FILE MARKER. it was a freebie from Give Away of the Day, but a very nice one. I also had the set-up files on the back-up jump drive, too, not just the opened/set-up one. But when the already-set-up files didn't work, I went to the set-up ones, but they needed that to be done "THE DAY" it was given away, or wouldn't work. :(

Sooo, hope they have it again soon. UNLESS someone maybe knows of such a file-marker that's free somewhere without its being limited to just one day?? I really got to relying on that, i guess. I'd recall, for instance, that such-&-such a file was in a certain place on the desk-top and such-&-such a color.

Anyway, we'll check this out, for sure. Thanks. ;)

[Gina Stevenson]

QUESTION -- If someone sends their computer files to this back-up place, and it gets hacked, one wants to be careful to not send files that contain passwords/account #'s, etc, tho' one might keep these on their computer, no? [maybe put them on CD, or print them out & then not keep them on the computer, if it's entirely backed up???

Oh, yeah ... besides this file marker which colors them nicely, there was a "sticky notes" that I'd gotten from there that I tended to use a lot with reminders of this, that, the other. ;)

OK, I see, now that it's DL'd. You put things in there you want to back up, not just an overall grab-everything-from-this-computer sort of back-up. ;)

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

(Updated instructions)

I've done this using other methods, but I think this is about as easy a way to put sermon audio online as I've found.


Get a free DropBox account. Install it on the computer you use for recording the sermon mp3's. If you use this link (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTMzODY3MTI5) to sign up, you'll score some additional storage for me.
Now, after you record, save the sermon to your new My Dropbox/Public folder
Now, on your computer, right click on the Drop Box folder named "Public" - pick Drop Box>Get Sharable Link.
Put that link on your church website - linking to recent sermons. People who click on that link will now see a directory of the sermons and be able to listen right there.

I put the Drop Box Public page in an iframe, so you see it as part of the church website. You can see it in operation on our church website (http://www.alvinnazarene.org/sermons.php).

[Landon DeCrastos]

Thanks!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Dropbox comes with 2 Gigs of storage right off. You can buy additional storage, but the service also offers some free upgrades. For instance, if you don't have a free DropBox account account and use this link to sign up (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTMzODY3MTI5), you’ll score some additional storage for me.


There are also some easy upgrades you can get for simply linking your facebook account to Dropbox or writing a short "why I like Dropbox" line or two. Check it out here. (https://www.dropbox.com/free)

[Kevin Rector]

Dropbox comes with 2 Gigs of storage right off....

Or even better use this link to sign up for dropbox and score ME additional storage. (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE1OTAxMzIzOQ) :)

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Or even better use this link to sign up for dropbox and score ME additional storage. (https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE1OTAxMzIzOQ) :)

No fair...you have lots more friends than I do.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Updating this thread upon discovering that my former approach to putting sermon audio online no longer works as it once did. Dropbox has made a couple of changes, neither helpful to my approach of using Dropbox. First, they removed their built in audio player. Second, they removed the capability for a guest to stream the audio. If you click on an audio file, it takes you to a download page.

So, I've made some adjustments that result in pleasing results.

Before, proceeding, here are the prerequisites:
1. A Wordpress website
2. The capability of creating FTP users on the website
3. The Wordpress plugin MP3-JPlayer
4. The knowledge to map a Network Drive on the church computer

Here are the steps
1. At the web host, create a FTP user for sermons - give that user full access to the sermon directory only.
2. On the church computer, create a Network Drive - map it to the FTP sermon folder on the web host.
3. Create a sermon page on the website and put the plugin, MP3-JPlayer on the page, set up to list the sermons in that directory.
4. On Sundays, record the sermon (we use the freeby Audacity) - export to MP3, then drop the file into the Network Drive sermon folder.

That's it. Whatever mp3 you put into that folder on the church computer will automatically be added to the playlist on the web church page.

This is more geeky than the Dropbox approach, but not out of reach of the average church tech person.

See it at work here: http://www.alvinnazarene.org/index.php/sermons-inspiration/recent-sermons

[Kevin Rector]

Updating this thread upon discovering that my former approach to putting sermon audio online no longer works as it once did. Dropbox has made a couple of changes, neither helpful to my approach of using Dropbox. First, they removed their built in audio player. Second, they removed the capability for a guest to stream the audio. If you click on an audio file, it takes you to a download page.

So, I've made some adjustments that result in pleasing results.

Before, proceeding, here are the prerequisites:
1. A Wordpress website
2. The capability of creating FTP users on the website
3. The Wordpress plugin MP3-JPlayer
4. The knowledge to map a Network Drive on the church computer

Here are the steps
1. At the web host, create a FTP user for sermons - give that user full access to the sermon directory only.
2. On the church computer, create a Network Drive - map it to the FTP sermon folder on the web host.
3. Create a sermon page on the website and put the plugin, MP3-JPlayer on the page, set up to list the sermons in that directory.
4. On Sundays, record the sermon (we use the freeby Audacity) - export to MP3, then drop the file into the Network Drive sermon folder.

That's it. Whatever mp3 you put into that folder on the church computer will automatically be added to the playlist on the web church page.

This is more geeky than the Dropbox approach, but not out of reach of the average church tech person.

See it at work here: http://www.alvinnazarene.org/index.php/sermons-inspiration/recent-sermons

I do it a bit differently, I actually use an FTP program to upload the file to the web server. I use a different Wordpress plugin. Also, before uploading the sermon, I drop the MP3 file into iTunes and edit all it's data, attaching artwork, Putting an artists, genre, album name, etc.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I do it a bit differently, I actually use an FTP program to upload the file to the web server. I use a different Wordpress plugin. Also, before uploading the sermon, I drop the MP3 file into iTunes and edit all it's data, attaching artwork, Putting an artists, genre, album name, etc.

Sounds like a nice approach. I'm setting things up so that "I" don't deal with it week by week. Our excellent a/v team handles it so I want to make it as easy as possible. Once you set up the Network Drive, it's just drag and drop - like Dropbox.

[Kevin Rector]

Sounds like a nice approach. I'm setting things up so that "I" don't deal with it week by week. Our excellent a/v team handles it so I want to make it as easy as possible. Once you set up the Network Drive, it's just drag and drop - like Dropbox.

Yeah, I've just recruited a fellow to be our "sermon uploader". Using the computer in our media center and the instructions I wrote out for him is just about foolproof.

[Kevin Rector]

Oh, I should add, the FTP program we use basically looks like a network drive. When you open the FTP program it automatically makes a connection to the last folder you were in on the server and you just drag and drop it, so from a users perspective it pretty much just looks like a folder.

[Lucas Finch]

Updating this thread upon discovering that my former approach to putting sermon audio online no longer works as it once did. Dropbox has made a couple of changes, neither helpful to my approach of using Dropbox. First, they removed their built in audio player. Second, they removed the capability for a guest to stream the audio. If you click on an audio file, it takes you to a download page.

So, I've made some adjustments that result in pleasing results.

Before, proceeding, here are the prerequisites:
1. A Wordpress website
2. The capability of creating FTP users on the website
3. The Wordpress plugin MP3-JPlayer
4. The knowledge to map a Network Drive on the church computer

Here are the steps
1. At the web host, create a FTP user for sermons - give that user full access to the sermon directory only.
2. On the church computer, create a Network Drive - map it to the FTP sermon folder on the web host.
3. Create a sermon page on the website and put the plugin, MP3-JPlayer on the page, set up to list the sermons in that directory.
4. On Sundays, record the sermon (we use the freeby Audacity) - export to MP3, then drop the file into the Network Drive sermon folder.

That's it. Whatever mp3 you put into that folder on the church computer will automatically be added to the playlist on the web church page.

This is more geeky than the Dropbox approach, but not out of reach of the average church tech person.

See it at work here: http://www.alvinnazarene.org/index.php/sermons-inspiration/recent-sermons

Thanks for this info! I like the potential of this plugin much better than what I have been using. I have some questions, though, as I am not getting mine to look similar to your's.

This is how I currently have the plugin embedded in my page: [mp3-jplayer tracks=FEED:DF]

The directory that it is pulling from is here: http://bitnaz.org/audio/

Here is the actual page with the MP3-JPlayer at the top and then the system that I have been using below: http://www.bitnaz.org/?page_id=17

First, how do I arrange the order of the tracks shown? I would like the newest at the top.

Second, how do I get the player to show the titles that the .mp3s have been encoded with instead of the file names? We don't really use much in the way of titles (or at least my senior pastor has never passed on to me titles to use), but I encode the .mp3s with something like "September 23, 2012 Message" when the file name is 092312.mp3

Third, I forgot what else I was going to ask, but maybe it'll come to me after I figure those first two out.

Thanks!

Edit:

Haha! the :D above should be : D with no space in between them.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Thanks for this info! I like the potential of this plugin much better than what I have been using. I have some questions, though, as I am not getting mine to look similar to your's.

This is how I currently have the plugin embedded in my page: [mp3-jplayer tracks=FEED:DF]

The directory that it is pulling from is here: http://bitnaz.org/audio/

Here is the actual page with the MP3-JPlayer at the top and then the system that I have been using below: http://www.bitnaz.org/?page_id=17

First, how do I arrange the order of the tracks shown? I would like the newest at the top.

Second, how do I get the player to show the titles that the .mp3s have been encoded with instead of the file names? We don't really use much in the way of titles (or at least my senior pastor has never passed on to me titles to use), but I encode the .mp3s with something like "September 23, 2012 Message" when the file name is 092312.mp3

Third, I forgot what else I was going to ask, but maybe it'll come to me after I figure those first two out.

Thanks!

Edit:

Haha! the :D above should be : D with no space in between them.

Lucas, I'm using this line:

*[mp3-jplayer dload="y" width=90% tracks="FEED:/sermons"]

In Wordpress, once you install the plugin, you can go to Settings/MP3 JPlayer and you'll see several settings, there's even a "more options" section.

I know you can reorder alphabetically. We name the files the name of the sermons, so he name displays either way, but I think there's a setting to show titles if they exist. Since we don't embed the titles, I haven't played with it.