Another RadioBlog tutorials

The Radioblog has become a very popular online music media player. It is a flash based program embedded into a PHP page. I've received several questions about how I made my Radioblog work. It seems that the instructions that's packaged with it wasn't all too clear.

Follow the steps below and you'll soon have your radioblog working in a few minutes. But check for the following requirements first!

	You must have a webspace which allows you to run PHP! Ask your webhost about this.
	All music files that you'd like to play on your radioblog should be in MP3 format.
	You must have a copy of Radioblog. Download latest version

Step 1
	After downloading the program, unzip it and open the extracted folder.

Step 2

Make sure that the folders create.sound and radio.blog" are intact. The file Instructions.txt isn't all too important as it wasn't that helpful. Personally, I had to do a lot of figuring out when I tried to install my Radioblog for the first time using that file.

Step 3

Highlight and copy the mp3 files that you want your Radioblog to contain. Note that only MP3 files may be used. By the way, rename your files in this order: "Artist - Title of Song.mp3"

Step 4

Open your create.sound folder and paste your previously copied files into it. The create.sound folder is within your radio.blog folder.

Step 5

Now Double-click on convert_all.bat to run it and leave it to convert all your MP3 files to SWF format. It will automatically close when it's done.

Step 6

Highlight and cut the SWF files. You may now delete the MP3 files from where the SWF files have been converted from. You don't need them anymore. They'll only occupy space on your PC.

Step 7

Open your radio.blog folder and paste the SWF files into it. Note that this is the radio.blog folder within the radio.blog folder.

Step 8

Open config.ini with Notepad or a similar text editor. You may now change the colors of your Radioblog interface. You can even change the opacity of its interface by changing variable of bg_opacity". Example, bg_opacity=80.

Step 9

To make your Radioblog's layout fit with your site's layout, Open index.php". Not knowing anything about php is not a problem, since we're not editing the PHP programs. This is just like html so go edit it as much as you like the way you edit html. Just remember not to edit anything within the tags.

Step 10

Now upload your radio.blog folder and all its content into your webspace. This is the radio.blog folder within the main radio.blog folder, ok? Open internet explorer and point your browser to the exact url of index.php. If you saved the radio.blog folder along with your primary public files, it may look like http://www.domainname.com/radio.blog/index.php.

You can keep adding more songs to your Radioblog by converting your MP3 files to SWF format and uploading them. You can change the look of your Radioblog interface by editing index.php and config.ini and reuploading them (overwriting the previous ones). You can also load your Radioblog into an IFRAME!