Demos through Mails

Giuseppe_Magnatti · 2014-05-29T11:27:36.000Z

Hi everybody!

As some labels do not have time to listen to all the demos the receive,

many of them will only hear to demos sent trough mail…

Do you know how it is the best way to do that

Sorry for the stupid question but after a lot of work iI don’t wanna mess up at the end…

Many thanks

William_WiLD · 2014-05-29T11:34:22.000Z

What do you mean, demo as an attachment ?

William_WiLD · 2014-05-29T11:38:47.000Z

With OUTLOOK You can create a mail with a background audio linked :

Adding sound to a mail message in Outlook Express is pretty straight forward; Format-> Background-> Sound. In Microsoft Office Outlook it isn’t that straight forward at all. It is even quite hard to find. Probably because Microsoft Office Outlook is targeted to a more business public than a home user one. But if you look a bit closer you’ll find that you can do a lot more fun stuff Microsoft Office Outlook than Outlook Express. This guide not only instructs you how to add a sound to an e-mail but also leads you to options to let you add stuff like scrolling text or even a movie!
Update: Sadly this method is broken when you are running Windows XP SP2 click [b]here[/b] for a method that also works on Windows XP with SP2 installed.
There is no way to do this anymore at all in Outlook 2007.
[ol]
[li]First you’ll have to make sure that Microsoft Office Word is your e-mail editor. Please note that you can only set Word as your editor when Outlook and Word are the same version. To set Word as the e-mail editor go to Tools-> Options-> tab Mail Format.[/li]

[li]On this tab you’ll also have to set your message format to HTML[/li]

[li]Press OK to apply and leave Options[/li]

[li]Create a new message. A message will be displayed that Word is starting as your e-mail editor. Note that this looks exactly like Word with specific e-mail fields and options to it[/li]

[li]To insert sound you’ll need an extra Toolbar called Web Tools. To make this visible choose View-> Toolbars-> Web Tools. A small pane will pop-up now[/li]

[li]In the small pane press the Sound icon. A new window called Background Sound will pop-up[/li]

[li]In the Background Sound window press Browse to browse to your sound file. You can add the following sound files
[ul]
[li]wav[/li]
[li]mid[/li]
[li]midi[/li]
[li]rmi[/li]
[li]au[/li]
[li]aif[/li]
[li]aiff[/li]
[li]snd[/li]
[/ul]
[font]
I strongly advise to use midi-files. These files are quite small even when they are quite lengthy. When you’ve found your sound file press Open to go back to the Background Sound window[/li]

[li]You can also set the amount of loops for the sound file; how many times the sound file is played completely before it stops playing. You can give this a value between 1 to 5 or set it to Infinite to loop until another message is selected or when Outlook is closed.[/li]

[li]Press OK to add the sound to your message. Note that the sound-file is played directly.[/li]

[/ol]

FOR HTML message you have info there :
http://www.kubepharm.com/sound-in-html-emails.html

here :
http://www.ehow.com/how_6366843_embed-music-html-email-file.html

(for HTML better if you preview is host on your website and link to the online file)

William_WiLD · 2014-05-29T11:43:49.000Z

Also as it’s very intrusive method label can don’t like that.
Also it doesn’t resolve the fact if your email is not in the address book of the label you should fall in spam folder.

Hope it help a bit.

Giuseppe_Magnatti · 2014-05-29T12:54:48.000Z

Thanks for the feedback…

I have a MAC with Outlook… I might open another mail account with a different program…

You are right, but if a label is asking you to do so what else?

Most of them they don’t want to even see tracks on soundcloud …

If I give them a download link like WEtransfer instead they won’t download in their computer music that they don’t know…

It so complicated…