Embedding Audio Files in Your PastPerfect Online Records

Concept

Embedded audio files on your site will bring your records to life in a whole new way. Visitors can hear your music collection or oral history projects without ever having to leave your site.

The first step to embedding audio files in a PastPerfect Online record is to upload the file to a website for hosting. We will use SoundCloud as our example, but there are other file hosting sites available. When considering a hosting service, be sure it will fit your needs. Some of them are free while others may have fees. The site may have restrictions on file sizes, limits on total amount of storage space, or a policy that removes files if they are not accessed during a specific period of time.

Task

1. Upload your audio file to SoundCloud.
2. Locate the HTML code for embedding the audio player.
3. Copy the HTML from your SoundCloud Embed Screen.
4. Choose a field in PastPerfect to store the code for your multimedia links. Since these links can be quite long, we suggest using Custom Field 21 or Custom Field 22. Information about setting up Custom Fields can be found in the References section of this topic.
5. Locate the PastPerfect record associated with this audio file.
6. In the Custom Field that you chose above, paste in the HTML you copied from the SoundCloud page.
   
   
   
   
7. The next time you go through the Web Publishing Wizard to create and upload files, be sure that your Custom Field is selected as a field to include online and renamed as you want it to appear on your site.
8. Your PastPerfect Online record will look similar to the example below.
   
   

References

• SoundCloud Help Center
• Information about setting up Custom Fields can be found in the PastPerfect User Guide.
• Web Publishing Wizard - Selecting Data Fields