How do I set the link in Workman HTML5 Audio Stack?

I have some kind of basic deficiency in setting links. I never seem to know how to end them. There must be rules for this and I must find them. In the meantime…

I just bought Joe Workman’s HTML5 Audio stack. I want to use it to place little audio clips here and there on my website. Right now, I am just testing it in a testing / playaround site that is not published.

I made a test audio called “audiotest-9-12-15.m4a”. It works; I click it and it talks. I uploaded it to my televisionadvertising.com website files. To do this, I created a televisionadvertising.com folder at GoDaddy called “audio”. I uploaded the m4a file into that folder. It is there.

On a blank page in my test site, with only site styles and a 1-column foundation, I added the HTML5 Audio stack. Under “set link”, I set an m4a link in several different ways, saved the page, went to Preview and clicked the arrow. Nada. Here are the ways I set the link: http://televisionadvertising.com/audio/audiotest-9-12-15.m4a, same just ending in “audio/”, same just ending in “audio”. None of those worked.

Maybe I did something else wrong, or have not done something else, but I am sure that I am bad about phrasing links correctly, so I figure that is the problem. Would someone please tell me how to make this work? Thanks!

I’ve used that Stack, I’ve always dropped the audio file into the “Resources” folder (drag in files) then linked to it from there, works for me.

If you go to the link you set
http://televisionadvertising.com/audio/audiotest-9-12-15.m4a
you will notice it is a 404, not found.

Thanks, zeebe and DaveFox. This morning, when I showed the problem to my wife (who writes code professionally in several languages), she saw the problem immediately. A typo. When I created the folder in GoDaddy I named the folder “Audio” instead of “audio”, which is what I meant to type. Then I just could not see it. Fixed that and wrote the link to it, which was properly written http://televisionadvertising.com/audio/audiotest-9-12-15.m4a – and it worked perfectly.

But – DaveFox, thanks – you have led me to a much easier path! I had never actually used the Resources folder. So, I just read up on that, dragged my test audio into there, linked to it via the Set Link box and voila! It works great.

Hello everyone… I am brand new to this HTML5 Audio plug in and I believe I have followed the steps described here, except that I’m using .mp3 and my audio is not playing as expected?

http://www.danielrmandel.com/Billy%20Audio/BillyAudio.html

Any / all help would be appreciated!

thanks,
Daniel

Your audio files are not on the links you have them for. They are set to this
http://www.danielrmandel.com/resources/Billy4th-Podcast#1.mp3
and
http://www.danielrmandel.com/resources/Billy4thPodcast#2.mp3
but those come up with a page not found.

Personally, I NEVER use resources with RapidWeaver, as I have never gotten them to work properly. I use an FTP app and upload them to the server myself and then link to them that way.

I discovered that the issue was as follows:

I had created my first few audio files named with a # symbol. It appears that this is considered a special character and prevents the file from playing via the HTML5 Audio.

Once I corrected this the audio file and player started working as expected.