I had not heard of this âsymbiotic economyâ approachâthe things I am learning! However, somewhat related, although this may be more for the âAre you sitting comfortably?â thread:
Do you or others on the Forum remember when folk had âallotmentsâ and exchanged produce? Then there was the cup of sugar over the garden wall routine which our neighbour regularly called out for because she baked a lot. An hour later she would pass a plate of warm, delicious Welsh Cakes back over the wallâI reckon we came off the winners there. Living in a terrace house, perhaps the funniest cooperative effort or exchange involved our other neighbour who a magnificent voice and often performed in chapels or at charity events, but had no accompanist to rehearse with. Over that garden wall would come the sheet music for me to play on our piano while she practiced in her house then would tap out in code on the adjoining living-room wall to indicate if we were to take âonce more from the topâ. The joys of growing up in Splott, Cardiffâhappy days!
Canât believe itâsuccess at last downloading and recording on Audacity-- but now the final hurdle⌠How do I post the file to the Forum please? When I try to upload it here I can only find a way to attach photos.
Thank you for your patience and help!
Marilyn
PS Never could get SoundCloud to work for meâthe final message was that is was âdiscontinuedâ. Pity.
You uploaded on SoundCloud? If so you just copy/paste link on here and the thing is done. Try and if something doesnât work for some reason Iâll (if not any other member first) take a look what went wrong or what you have to do differently. But this should be the simplest part I believe.
Sadly noâSoundCloud says it is âdiscontinuedâ so I cannot upload to it. However, I have made the recording in Audacity. When I try to copy and paste into here only the title copies, not the recording. I keep trying.
When I try to copy and paste here, this is all that happensâŚ
Marilynâs Welsh Recording copy
I can email the file successfully no problem, but not upload it here unless once I press the reply button magically the file is part of the response. So here goesâŚ
Weâre going to need to investigate this bit - we donât have the forum set up to accept uploads of sound files, so that we donât end up getting hit by nasty hosting costsâŚ
How are you accessing SoundCloud? When are you seeing the âdiscontinuedâ message?
This is the solution. You will not be able to embed the recording though, but the link will do to click on and listen.
So you donât have a PC, just iPad? With PC it would be as easy as saying cake. What about that?
EDIT:
If nothing of suggested by @aran or me doesnât work and if you trust me, I can âborrowâ you my own DropBox or Soundcloud. I pay both so I have unlimited upload time on SoundCloud and big storage on DropBox. If nobody else, you deserve to be helped this way if neccessary. Just tose the coin into wishing well if you feel like âŚ
I was accessing SoundCloud directly from the App I downloaded on my iPad. It downloaded fine, but repeatedly stalled as I tried to upload my recording from âAudioCopyâ giving an error message saying I had exceeded my allowanceâbut I was a new user, so that couldnât be correct. After several attempts its homepage then displayed the notice âdiscontinuedâ. At that point I deleted SoundCloud from my iPad.
Today I downloaded âAudacityâ on to a Mac and re-recorded my 5 minutes (actually more like 2 1/2) as near as I could yet again, this time on Audacity. It worked and I was able to play it back, file it, email myself and a friend. All OK. Next I signed on to SoundCloud from scratch on the Mac. That went smoothly and I successfully uploaded the Audacity track, played it back etc. So it is there. I also uploaded my recording into Dropbox, but it demanded I sign up for a 30-day upgrade before it would allow me to share the file, so I reverted to SoundCloud and have now entered the https link in a separate post to SSiW. Letâs hope that worked.
Failing that, I will be buying my young musician friend (aka personal sound engineer) a glass of wine or two at the pub tomorrow evening and promised to do some fancy needlework in return for her to crack the âsound barrierâ
In retrospect, I should have taken a screen shot on my iPad before deleting SoundCloud to show the âdiscontinuedâ notice. Perhaps I am supposed to be buying one or some of the in-App purchases, but there is such a dizzying array of editing/sharing Apps I wouldnât know which would help.
Sorry for this saga, but as Max Boyce would say âwhere there is a will there is a way!â
EDIT by @tatjana
Hope you donât mind, but Iâve put link into text so that itâs clickable. Dropbox letâs you put the link separately and it embeds into the forum post, but it obviously doesât alowe the embed to really work so the link was unaccessable. Now, if you click on âmy Dropbox linkâ it should carry you directly to the playable sound file.
You seem to have broken the âsound barrierâ for me. I cannot thank you and everyone else enough for helping and cheering me on as I stumbled through that last stretch towards the finish line. But it has definitely been worth it.
There must be a wayâŚ
!!! Diolch!