So, I've been playing with Ableton Live recently as my digital audio workstation.  It is great software -- fantastic UI and awesome features as far as integration audio and midi. There's much power in this tool. 

I recently composed a piece called "Hill Climb" and wanted to make it available to the world via Silverlight.  I used the audio template from Expression Encoder and have the whole deal hosted on Silverlight Streaming.  I would have used the Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plug-in, but the problem I discovered is that the templates generated by Expression Encoder always auto-play the media upon page load. There's no way to toggle that from the UI, which means I had to go tweak the auto-play parameter in the generated StartPlayer.js file.  So, I couldn't use the plug-in, but rather zipped up the files and posted them to Silverlight streaming myself, adding the player to my blog on the right column.

If you'd like to see the workflow including the plug-in, check out this post, which has a good tutorial. 

Posted on December 10, 2007 13:34
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James Clarke

James Clarke

December 8, 2007 20:59

Karsten..  You can turn autoplay off in the template as described here: www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx which enables an encode-" target="_blank" >www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx which enables an encode->publish workflow.  We are fixing this properly in the next version of Expression Enocder.  thx  James
          


James Clarke

James Clarke

December 9, 2007 01:59

Sorry... the URL is: www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx" target="_blank" >www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx
          


Karsten Januszewski

Karsten Januszewski

December 9, 2007 05:02

You are the man, James!
          


chris

chris

January 10, 2008 20:09

i am totally new to silverlight and found your instruction vid on the site where did you find the interface you were useing? i am totally lost
          


Karsten Januszewski

Karsten Januszewski

January 13, 2008 09:01

Did you watch this?  blogs.msdn.com/.../...-for-expression-encoder.aspx" rel="nofollow">blogs.msdn.com/.../...-for-expression-encoder.aspx" target="_blank" >blogs.msdn.com/.../...-for-expression-encoder.aspx" rel="nofollow">blogs.msdn.com/.../...-for-expression-encoder.aspx

          


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