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How to use SkyDrive to play Videos and Music on your Space

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:46:07 GMT

SkyDrive is a new service by Microsoft that lets you upload and host files for your own use. It is available in India, UK and the US market only as of now. So if you are in these regions you can use it for hosting your banner, music and videos to play on spaces or any other website that you might have. It gives you a total space of 1GB and you can even access the public folders of your friends.

Go to SkyDrive and sign in with your windows live account.
You will notice a panel with various options. Click on the Public folder icon.

You will notice various options through which you can create new folders, etc. For now, click on Add files.

Browse through you computer and upload the file you want. In my case I am going to upload a music file titled 'Stronger'.
After uploading go to where you file is uploaded in the public folder. You will see various options through which you can embed the file into your blog so people can download it or an option to send the file via email and so on. We don't require this as you cannot display your banner or play your music or videos through the direct link given or the embed option. To play music or videos on your space through the media player you need a hotlink which means a direct link to the actual file in question.

To get the hotlink...

Right click the file icon (Picture, music, video or any other file format)
From the drop down menu, select Copy Shortcut (if you are using IE or select Copy link location if you are using Firefox browser)
When you paste this link anywhere (ctrl+v) or right click, paste) you will notice it is quite long and it has a ?download at the end of it. Delete that bit.

For example...

I got :

http://tswp6g.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pFfZGkZNh4Xg73_YUvx5n1SYJw4N1TMIZvOZYBLaJ5hd_7jeqWsld_h

cnRFWYeFdKhKWptaGpd52fyHC9YKMxyUwAh_Z1k5PQ/stronger.wma?download

After removing ?download I am left with...

http://tswp6g.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pFfZGkZNh4Xg73_YUvx5n1SYJw4N1TMIZvOZYBLaJ5hd_7jeqWsld_h

cnRFWYeFdKhKWptaGpd52fyHC9YKMxyUwAh_Z1k5PQ/stronger.wma

This is the hotlink that we require and it can be used in the media player. Just make sure your file is in an acceptable format (like .wmv, .mp3, .avi, etc). You can even shorten the URL using tinyurl if you want but it is not necessary.

Now add the Windows Media Player to your Space
Position it where ever you want. You can even choose to make the media player invisible so that music will be played but there will be no media player module showing up on your space in the preview mode.
Click on the Edit link found on the media player module.
The page will refresh and you will be asked for a link/URL.
Paste the hotlink that we modified and saved earlier.
Click on the Save button after you have done it and preview your space.

You will hear your music or see your video play...

Done!

Easy right?

Share files on your space with Windows Live SkyDrive

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:46:19 GMT

Share files on your space with Windows Live SkyDrive

We launched an integration with the new Windows Live SkyDrive service. SkyDrive is a new Beta service that allows you to store files online and access them from any computer, and also easily share files with friends (or the public.) SkyDrive is currently available through Spaces in the US, UK, and India.
From your Spaces home or “What’s New” page, you now have a link to “Share files” in the mirror module:

You can also add the SkyDrive module to your space:

You can learn more about SkyDrive on their team space.
Enjoy and let us know your thoughts.
-Chris and Rob
P.S. Yesterday was a big day for launches. Also check-out http://home.live.com:

Find Music and Videos to play on your Space / blog

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:15:50 GMT

I put up a blog about finding Mp3's using Google. A few users gave useful feedback.

Here are a few sites where you can find URL's for songs (and videos) and you can play them on your Space Media player.

(Music and Video search)

Search and Download MP3’s using Google

Use Seeqpod to embed music on your space

http://www.dogpile.com/

http://www.altavista.com/

http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://search.yahoo.com/

(Music Search only)

http://www.airmp3.net/

http://www.top1000mp3.net/

http://minorcrisis.net/search.php

http://espew.com/

http://mp3.earthreactor.com/

Thanks for your comments and feed back. I will add this blog under the hosting and URL section for future reference.

Please comment below if you know of anymore audio search engines / hosting places.

Thanks..

- Dev

What is a URL & How to get them.

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:57:36 GMT

This is nothing to do with modding. But I am sick of people requesting me for URL. So here you go :

What is a URL ?

www.google.com << that is the URL of Google

In fancy terms:

URL is the Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.

Now the main reason we spacers care about URL, is to put music or other files on the media player or into your blogs.

First it is recommended that you get the media file on your computer.
It must be in either of these formats : WMA, WMV, WAV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, MP3 .

If not , Click here to download an encoder and convert the media file into any of the ones above. Encoders can also be used to reduces your file size this greatly improves your media loading time. I use Poikosoft.

Now click here to see a bunch of hosting places. You need to host your files online so others can access it. Them merely sitting on your hard disk wont help.

Select a Hosting service.
Sign up.
Upload your media file.
After the upload is complete , Go to the place where it was uploaded. Usually its in places like , 'My Files' , 'My Folder' etc.
Now you will see the uploaded media as links in your hosting service account.
Right click the uploaded media file link & Select ' copy shortcut '[Internet Explorer] or ' copy link location' [Firefox]

Now paste this link into the place where they ask you for on the media player or any place where its asked in any of my tutorials concerning media files.

Click Save/publish entry.

Done !!

Checklist :

Media file on PC
Media file in acceptable format
Media file uploaded on hosting service
Right URL got.
Paste URL.

Report any errors !

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Hosting and sharing your Music, Videos and Photos on your Space

Sat, 07 May 2005 22:28:42 GMT

Host your Videos, Music, Images online to play or display them on your site!

For Audio/Video Files

500 MB storage

Use Microsoft's Sky Drive to store any file that you may like. You can use it for personal passpwoerd protected storage.

Share files with friends or share files in public. Use the Public file sharing option to upload music and Videos that you might want to play on your space. A direct Download link is provided for uploaded files which you can use to link on your space or media player.

You can also display your files via a module on spaces and share it with your visitors. Click here to add the module to your space or look for a 'Share files' link on the What's new page.

(If you cannot access it or use it.. it may be available in your country)

www.fileden.com

500 MB Hosting, Unlimited Bandwidth.

http://www.esnips.com/ 5GB , Upload anything!

www.pages.google.com

Gives 100 MB hosting space. You need a Google account though. No non-sense hosting. I love it!

(Email me at hack.msn.spaces [at] gmail.com and I will send you a google account invite)

www.snapdrive.net 2GB

http://www.thefilehut.com/

250 mb Hosting. Good as well..

Places to host your Picture

Allyoucanupload.com