Sometimes you just want to upload an audio file or a movie to Wikispaces and let people play it when they come to your page. Well, now you can! It’s part of a new option we’ve added to our file upload tool. Let’s take a look.
First, you edit your page, and click the Image and File tool on the toolbar.
Then, in the “Images & Files” window that pops up
you’ll see that you can “insert” or “link to” your files.
If you choose “link to” the file will just be linked to on the page so people can download it. But if you choose “insert”, the file will, where possible, be displayed as playable media. Here’s an example where we’ve used “link to” and then “insert” for an audio file and then a video file so you can see the difference.
So now, if you want people to be able to play your media on Wikispaces, you don’t have to mess around with widgets and other tools if you don’t want to. You can just pop them on your pages nice and simple.
Enjoy, and let us know what you think.
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The question is can I access the url ALSO as a standalone mp3 file with a ” .mp3″address?
Other sites — like eSnips — allow you to upload audio and use a player — but then cripple its usefulness by encasing the file in their own formatted url.
I’m a podcaster and i love Wikispaces — and I’d really like to share and store my audio through Wikispaces as a matter of course as I can easily create feed rss elsewhere.
I’d like to share video there –any of my file formats so long as I can access the files also for later sharing in the format I uploaded them.
Sure Dave. We don’t modify your file at all.
This is awesome and will probably make me pay the $50 a year for privacy! I tested it with an mp3 and a mov. The interface doesn’t give away the power of the feature as the tool you go through on the editor is the one folks associate with adding a picture.
I notice my mov file looks like Quicktime player and I know that will work on my Mac but does it embed fine on Windows browsers? New widget tool rocks too – thanks!
http://elearningformusic.wikispaces.com/embedding+media
Glad you like it Pete, thanks!
The player that is used for movie files is actually dependent on the type of file. If it uses a player on your computer it will use whatever player is configured on that computer.
Thanks again. Spread the word!
what are the space limitations for free wikispaces? media probably fills that. any bandwidth limitations?
Ken,
Our Basic (free) service gives you 2GB of storage. Plenty of room for media. Full details are here: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/pricing
We don’t have bandwidth limits.
Cool. I’m a Web 2.0 junkie and employ blogging formats a lot but I think that wikis offer the most flexible platform with more bells and whistles that other setups.
I trialed the player and it works a treat. I think you folk are on a real winner so I’m reviewing all my web interfaces.
And with Wikispaes theres’ no pretense — it’s in the raw without distractions and complications
I’m trying to upload my movie as a quicktime movie because my school has blocked Youtube… when I upload the quicktime movie it is say that the file is an invalid format…. Any suggestions?
Regarding the invalid format comment, can you give the exact error message it gives? We don’t block any filetypes on Wikispaces, so I’m not sure what that error means.
If you’d like, we can follow up more easily if you email help@wikispaces.com with the details.
I am with this, capable of doing what?
sending a link to the media… or uploading media of my own…
or both?
also, is the media a download or will it be playable via wikispaces?
thanks – Matt =)
Matt, you can upload or link media to Wikispaces. And you can download or play media from Wikispaces.
I have tried to upload some .wmv files created with Photostory and also am getting the invalid file message.
any ideas?
Can you give the exact error message it gives? We can follow up more easily if you email help@wikispaces.com with the details.
I got the ‘upload and embed audio’ thing working fine a while back, but now when I upload an mp3 and double click to embed it in the page, it doesn’t display. Has something changed?
Thanks
Pete,
Might be a problem with the filename. Point us to the mp3 in question and we’ll take a look.
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