Doktor Avalanche
For me it's much easier if I go to the actual original website esp when I use my mobile phone etc, it seems to be more reliable. If somebody imposed that limitation on me I'd probably just move on... So consider everybody think different, I suggest you just (mostly) follow the defaults given to you like everybody else in your situation.
 
Thanks.

I don't use a smartphone so I didn't know this. But isn't there a Facebook app for smartphones? I know video clips seem to stream better on Facebook (on a computer) if they are uploaded to Facebook and served by Facebook servers. Is this not true on phones? And if the OP uploaded his clip directly to Facebook wouldn't that solve the issue of users having to "go back and forth" in order to comment? Or does the Facebook app not play movies?
 
[EDIT: You can turn off autoplay on YouTube, although maybe not on the YouTube smartphone app.]

You can post a song on SoundCloud and associate a picture with the song on SoundCloud.  Then when you post the SoundCloud link on Facebook, the picture will be there.

konradh
You can post a song on SoundCloud and associate a picture with the song on SoundCloud.  Then when you post the SoundCloud link on Facebook, the picture will be there.

Ok this sounds good. So please confirm this. If someone visits my Facebook timeline, will they see the picture that I associated with the song from Soundcloud? And will they also see a play button to play the song?  And will it play without being redirected to the SoundCloud website? I assume I can also type in some background info on the song all in the same window with the song.
 
Thanks for your help,

gmp

konradh
You can post a song on SoundCloud and associate a picture with the song on SoundCloud.  Then when you post the SoundCloud link on Facebook, the picture will be there.

Ok this sounds good. So please confirm this. If someone visits my Facebook timeline, will they see the picture that I associated with the song from Soundcloud? And will they also see a play button to play the song?  And will it play without being redirected to the SoundCloud website? I assume I can also type in some background info on the song all in the same window with the song.
 
Thanks for your help,

You should try it yourself and see what happens. When I tested it today (on your behalf), I linked to a Soundcloud song on Facebook and I did NOT get a player. It created a link back to the Soundcloud page where the song was. However, I was wrong about the image -- you can associate a picture with each song -- so maybe I was wrong about the player, too. It won't cost you anything to experiment. If you don't like the results you can quickly delete it from your Facebook page.

I've just tested this out too. Apparently Facebook allows you you paste in the widget's html code but doesn't display the widget. Instead it just displays an image and a link. The same code pasted in this forum will display the widget (I tested that here but deleted it before hitting the submit button).

I ended up using Windows Movie Maker - cool program. I actually added several pictures and some text and stuff - pretty easy to use. Quick results. It looks great on Facebook

You can post to Facebook from SoundCloud by sharing the track. It will create a post with the image and a link to the SoundCloud page. Like the one one my page for A Call to War:
https://www.facebook.com/dave.ranck1
 
Users will need to click on the link and be transferred to SoundCloud to give a listen. You could also create a simple YouTube vid and then it could be played inline.
 

DRanck
You can post to Facebook from SoundCloud by sharing the track. It will create a post with the image and a link to the SoundCloud page. Like the one one my page for A Call to War:
https://www.facebook.com/dave.ranck1
 
Users will need to click on the link and be transferred to SoundCloud to give a listen. You could also create a simple YouTube vid and then it could be played inline.
 

 
Thank you Dave for showing me an example. That's helpful. Actually what I prefer is what's right below your example, where it says
 
Here is Ruut's latest.
 
Here's what I ended up doing. Look for Tears of Joy a few pictures below

https://www.facebook.com/gerry.peters.7
 
This was done using Windows Movie Maker a free download part of Windows Essentials. It's a pretty easy program to use. I imported a few extra pictures from my website and also added some text. What's really nice are the panning special effects that make it seem more like a movie than just static pictures. You can set the duration that each picture is on the screen.
 
Of course in your situation you'll may prefer the quicker easier method with SoundCloud, but if you ever want to get more involved try the Movie Maker
 
Thank for the example, Dave,

Looks good, Gerry. I didn't know MovieMaker could do the "Ken Burns" effect, with the panning.