Animated Sounds

Connecting to a Sound Park


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Standard Sound Park (online)

1. Using the Internet :: In the standard mode, all Sound Pages are called from the online Freesound Music site at www.cm-gallery.com.
For example, open
http://www.cm-gallery.com/FleX/SoundTrips/SoundPageDemo.htm.

2. Publishing Sound Pages :: When you use the FleX Publisher to publish your own Sound Pages, the Sound Pages will be locally stored on your computer. All references to Animated Sounds and other resources of your Sound Pages will remain online and link to the Freesound Music server.

Therefore you may store your personal Sound Pages wherever you like, and send them even to other friends or place them at your own server. On the other side, an Internet connection must always be available, and with every download of a page you must take some download time into consideration.

For more information about publishing Sound Pages visit the FleX Sound Café.



Using a Sound Park DVD (local)

1. General :: With the local Sound Park repository on your DVD, you have the advantage to immediately perform all sound operations in real-time. The following steps demonstrate how to setup the Sound Park DVD and how to publish your own Sound Pages based on the DVD repository.

2. Setup :: To access the local Sound Park, open the file "index.htm" that is located in the root folder of your DVD drive. If, for example, your DVD drive has the letter "E:\", you can access the Sound Park through "E:\index.htm".

Once the local Freesound Music home page has opened, you can navigate it as you would do it online.

3.

Prepare Local Publishing :: In order to apply the correct path to your DVD when publishing local Sound Pages, do the following:

Hold Ctrl key and left-click button: The system becomes ready to get a new path.

1. Open a text editor.
2. Type your DVD drive path and add the string "httpdocs\FleX\", for example "E:\httpdocs\FleX\".
3. Copy the path into the clipboard (highlight the text, hold the Ctrl key and press 'C').
4. Go back to the on the message window of the application and press OK.

From now on, all your Sound Pages will be published with local paths to your DVD. You may store them on your computer wherever you like.

Further Functions :: Left-click button: If the button was empty (local mode), the button will show an "X" and switch to online mode.
Left-click button: If the button shows an "X" (online mode), the button will become empty and switch to local mode.
(Currently to relative path '../').
Hold Alt key and left-click button: Shows the currently active path (online or local).

4. Multi-Page Operations :: Limitation: When performing multiple page operations, for example, when calling all 4 portal pages at once, path error messages may occur. These messages do not reflect the actual process when loading the pages. Please confirm those messages with 'OK' to allow the loading to proceed as requested.




Redirecting Sound Pages

1. General :: Sound Pages that have been published to a certain destination, for example to the online Sound Park, or to a certain DVD, can be redirected afterwards to another destination using the Path Converter utility.

If the Sound Pages include references to new content that do not exist on a former Sound Park version, those references will be automatically redirected to the online Sound Park at "www.cm-gallery.com". Make sure that the Internet is accessible when performing those corrected versions of your Sound Pages.

2.

Using the Path Converter :: In order to apply a new destination Sound Park to your Sound Pages, do the following:

1. Click the left button to launch the Path Converter.
2. Confirm all browser security windows in order to allow the application to open.
3. In the first text field enter the source folder where your Sound Pages reside that you want to convert.
4. In the second text field enter the source referesnce path as appears in the Sound Pages.

If the source path is the default online path at "www.cm-gallery.com", no entry is required.

5. In the third text field, enter the destination reference path, for example for a Sound Park DVD (see "Using a Sound Park DVD" above), and click 'OK'.

The utility will convert all Sound Pages of the source folder. The utility will also check if any new references can be accessed. If not, please verify the path of your new Sound Park destination and correct it in the third text field accordingly.

6. After the conversion, a new set of Sound Pages can be converted. To end the utility, enter "end" into the first text field and click 'OK'.



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