Need help with creating a looping mp3 or swf

[sceva]

I want to upload a audio file to play as background music on my website.  I use an online website builder, and the template creates a flash website.  I can upload an mp3 or swf file of less than .5mb. The web tech guys say I have to change a setting in the mp3 file so it automatically loops (the web template only plays it once without this setting).  I have searched the internet, downloaded audacity, acid express, soundforge trial, but I cannot figure it out.  I have also read several places that looping an mp3 file leaves a slight break each time it loops.  I did get the web tech guys to convert my mp3 into a swf (I don't have flash software), but it has an annoying pause each time it loops.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  thanks.

[Audacity-help]

sceva wrote:

I want to upload a audio file to play as background music on my website.  I use an online website builder, and the template creates a flash website.  I can upload an mp3 or swf file of less than .5mb. The web tech guys say I have to change a setting in the mp3 file so it automatically loops (the web template only plays it once without this setting).  I have searched the internet, downloaded audacity, acid express, soundforge trial, but I cannot figure it out.  I have also read several places that looping an mp3 file leaves a slight break each time it loops.  I did get the web tech guys to convert my mp3 into a swf (I don't have flash software), but it has an annoying pause each time it loops.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  thanks.

There is no command you can put in the file to make it loop, and MP3s have silence padding by design that makes an audible break if you loop them. The command you give to the embedded player would be in the web page  (see http://www.hypergurl.com/music.html) so it depends if the template allows you to hand code this. To get over the looping problem, export as OGG from Audacity - it's slightly smaller than MP3 and has no silence padding. If the flash player can't play OGG, you can convert it to SWF with SuperPlayer (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload).

   

[sceva]

Audacity-help wrote:

 If the flash player can't play OGG, you can convert it to SWF with SuperPlayer (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload).

I have used super8 before, and it worked well converting to swf.  But it seems there are some settings that the Flash software can put into swf file that causes it to loop instead of looping the player in the template.  I have asked the web guys to change it so we can upload a normal file without having to have flash software (then we wouldn't need their template...) but it will take them awhile...  Any suggestions on how to add the loop to the swf file if I don't have flash software?

Thanks for your help.