Only certain members have privileges to post to Scrinetunes, so these instructions may not apply to you.

1. In the Control Panel, select Scrinetunes as the weblog in the Publish tab.

2. Enter a title

3. Enter a brief one or two sentence summary. This appears on the Scrine main page.

4. Enter the body of your post.  If you will be including any additional images or other song files, they will go here.

Note: if you include any additional song files in the body, you can have them automatically indent and space correctly by surrounding your song file with a small bit of code.  The entire line would then look something like the following:

5. Enter as much of the following information as you know: Artist Name, Song Name, Album Name, and Year.  These fields are not mandatory.

6. Use the upload button to upload the coverart for the featured song.  No resizing is necessary, as long as the file is not gigantic.  The image in the post will be resized automatically to fit the post. 

IMPORTANT: Make sure you are uploading the image into the correct file and placing the link in the Cover Art field.  It must go into the file named: SOTD Cover Art.

7. In the Song File Link field, place the code for the song file itself.  It will look something like the following:

IMPORTANT: The link name of the file uploaded must match exactly the name place here, so watch out for uppercase/lowercase differences.  The song file can have spaces in the name, but no spaces are allowed after the .mp3 part of the file.

8. If you have any additional information that you’d like viewable by Scrine members only, enter it into the Private Field.

9. ENTER NOTHING IN THE RATING FIELD.

10. Last but not least, choose a category for your song.  This is what shows on the page as the genre for the music.  If you don’t see a category you need, feel free to create one by clicking Edit Categories.  Then click Create a New Category, enter the Category Name and any parent it needs to fall under (if necessary-not required), then hit Submit.  Once the next screen pops up, click Close Window and Update Categories and your new category will be available to use in your post.

Good luck and have fun.

A couple of things I’ve learned after my first week:

To post more than one song, place this code in the body of the post:

<div class="song-indent">Song Name</div>

(This code is almost the same as above, except it closes the song indent command. It’s Keith’s update.)

When you want to place an album cover into the post, click the Upload button. This is the very tiny icon below the three Preview-Quick Save-Submit buttons.

Oddly, once you add the jpg, its code will appear within the summary! Just cut and paste the code into the Album Name square. It’s just one of those things that gives life such zest, here in the wild west of the internet.

Actually, Pam, after you’re uploaded your image, take a slightly closer look at the following screen before continuing.  You should see a dropdown menu that let’s you choose which entry entry field the image will be placed in.  Select the cover art field and you’ll save yourself a cut and paste.  Summary shows up as the default because it is the first field of the post screen.

Another question: is there a way to tell if someone else has a post queued up? I don’t want to post a song of the day if someone else has one at the ready, already.

Good question.  No, there isn’t at the moment, but it sure sounds like something we need.  I’ll come up with a way this weekend.