Had many requests from people asking how to add music or sound files to signatures and/or images. Have this tutorial posted at my site, but thought I would share it with all here as well.
Enjoy!
This tutorial will show how to add rollover music or sound file to a signature, or any image.

These can be made in many different programs like Macromedia FlashMX. By far the easiest I have found is SwishMax. That is the program I will be using for this tutorial.


First you need to have an image to use to place the music into. For this I have chosen a image I made in Bryce of a drum set. Get it? Music theme, drums...Okay, never mind.

With your image ready and easy to find you open up SwishMax.
* Go to right side where you see the Movie Tab. Place the size specs of your image here. {Fig 1}
*Up at the top menu bar you should click on Insert, and then Image. {Fig 1} & {Fig 1a}





*Click the Script tab, which is next to the Layout tab {Fig 2}



* Add Script, go to Events, and then 'On Rollover' {Fig 3}

*Click Script, go to Sound, then Play Sound {Fig 3}



*Click on the bottom Import, to get your sound file. This can be any sound file, and in any sound file format. You should see the title of your sound file appear in the lower window. {Fig 4}
*Click Script, then Events, Button and 'On Rollout'


Click Script one last time, then go to Sound, and 'Stop Sound' {Fig 5}
*Now you need to click 'Play Sound', then on your wave file
*Then click on 'Stop Sound', and then your wave file. Your windows should look similar to the ones in Fig 5.


Lastly you want to Export as a .SWF file, and you're done!

Here is the finished product: (Roll mouse over for music)




To post the image the following html has to be enabled on the site you post it on:
b,i,u,pre,embed,swf

And this is the tag to use to post (without obvious spaces):


< embed src = " http://www.xxxxx.xxx.swf" width="450" height="100" pluginspage="http: / www.macromedia.com/ shockwave /download/">

You can also make the music or sound file only play when clicked. This instruction will be added at another time.

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Good tut! *jabs GPN72* I use SwishMax to build entire sites. Love the program.

Made this thread STICKY....
GO BUNNIES!!!

heh now to download some CoH tracks and actually make myself a sig finally . .. hmm i should probably make an avatar too

Quote: Originally Posted by Digital-World Made this thread STICKY.... GO BUNNIES!!!

Thank you Digi!

Get busy Enko, and show us your results when done

Wonderful!!! nothing like a Flash guide.....easer than my flash bible

Quote: Originally Posted by Foe Thank you Digi! Get busy Enko, and show us your results when done

give me two weeks in august. i'm leaving tomorrow for australia

One thing I'm curious about, and GlitterKill will have to answer this. We have a pretty large pipe, but what does the animation and sound do to that pipe? That has to be a bandwidth killer and I would imagine that dialup folks can pretty much forget about it.

I will be the first to say that it is OK once I learned to keep my cursor to the side of the screen while scrolling, but how does it load for our dialup and overseas brethren? I would hate it if an audio or animation file download caused the rest of the site to wait for someone who doesn't have broadband.

Quote: Originally Posted by BigAkita One thing I'm curious about, and GlitterKill will have to answer this. We have a pretty large pipe, but what does the animation and sound do to that pipe? That has to be a bandwidth killer and I would imagine that dialup folks can pretty much forget about it. I will be the first to say that it is OK once I learned to keep my cursor to the side of the screen while scrolling, but how does it load for our dialup and overseas brethren? I would hate it if an audio or animation file download caused the rest of the site to wait for someone who doesn't have broadband.

Most likely most of them host it other places. I dont know of many people who have access to put a couple megabite file up here. The gifs and swfs with animation are alot smaller only a few hundred kb. I dont think it would prevent it from loading . I know sometimes PR loads but the sigs dont.

Are you gonna do a Macromedia FlashMX Sig Tutorial .......

Digi...Your the Sticky Koolest

Rep to Foe ..........I just finished my new sig ..........and guess what????.......My damn "Photobucket.com" account won't allow me to upload it (I even paid for the premium account)........geeze

Quote: Originally Posted by Highperf15 Rep to Foe ..........I just finished my new sig ..........and guess what????.......My damn "Photobucket.com" account won't allow me to upload it (I even paid for the premium account)........geeze

Is it a SWF.....?
They support swf's.....
http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=features

Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 Is it a SWF.....? They support swf's..... http://reg.imageshack.us/content.php?page=features

I know...but it keeps failing to upload...............and they shrink the pic size of anything over 1 mb...

That sucks......... I hate when they resize my pic's.....

Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 That sucks......... I hate when they resize my pic's.....

I know and to think I paid $25.00 extra for their damn premium account............

Quote: Originally Posted by Highperf15 I know and to think I paid $25.00 extra for their damn premium account............

Beeeen there.............
I am going to find a Image Hoster that can Handle a bigger image file........1mb
The search is on..........

Quote: Originally Posted by THRASHER2 Beeeen there............. I am going to find a Image Hoster that can Handle a bigger image file........1mb The search is on..........

Kewl....let me know.............

Quote: Originally Posted by Highperf15 Kewl....let me know.............

Bam............... 2mb file Hosting....Free
http://www.thefilehut.com/index.php

I tried a 1.5mb image file....It Works

I found one................... http://www.ripway.com ...............But how do I get it to work??

Quote: Originally Posted by Highperf15 I found one................... http://www.ripway.com ...............But how do I get it to work??

I got it to half-A$$ to work....

EDIT: DAMIT!