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2013/01/04 15:04:39
Beepster
It seems cool being able to create widgets and stuff but I'm not sure exactly where I'd dump them. I don't have a website yet and I'm assuming there are other more common/popular resources out there for this type of thing. Am I missing some other functions of this utility? 

Is it worth spending the time to learn? I just don't want to waste time screwing around with it if it's not gonna be of significant benefit.

Cheers, all. Hope you are having a great day. 
2013/01/04 15:25:34
sharke
I would probably look into what other resources are out there for publishing music on a website. My guess is that there are a ton of free widgets for hosting a playlist, and that some of them will be better than Cakewalk's offering. Are you going through the manual and wondering whether or not to bother reading the chapter on Publisher? 




2013/01/04 15:29:30
Beepster
Hiya, Sharke. Kind of. I mean the tut doesn't really say much but I opened up the help topic of Publisher and there's quite a bit of info in there. I'm just trying to be extremely thorough but there are certain things that aren't necessarily applicable so I just read the section as opposed to performing all the functions and creating notes. It's the notes that really take up a lot of time... but they are worth it.

Cheers.
2013/01/04 15:39:50
Beepster
Yeah... I think I'm gonna skip all that web publishing stuff and tear apart the Playback section. It looks like it's gonna be a bear.

I do know most of this stuff but I'm snagging a whole ton of alternative methods and tricks along the way. I'm also digging in WAY beyond what the tuts explain and learning a bunch of extra stuff on my own.

No more playing around Mr. Sonar. You WILL comply to my demands!!

;-)
2013/01/04 19:22:28
Fog
you might as well just use sound cloud etc these days instead

2013/01/04 22:35:48
Kev999
Beepster

Is it worth spending the time to learn? I just don't want to waste time screwing around with it if it's not gonna be of significant benefit.

I found Cakewalk Publisher frustrating because it never worked the way it was supposed to.  I did have some success with it though after finding suitable workarounds, but in the end it was more trouble than it was worth for me and I eventually gave up on it.

I was using the version that came with Sonar 6.  Maybe it has improved since then.
2013/01/05 08:31:26
Beepster
Thanks for the insight guys. If I decide to use it in the future I'll read up on it then. Cheers.
2013/01/05 09:05:37
garrigus
There are plenty of choices out there for this purpose...
http://www.instantshift.c...yers-for-your-website/

Scott

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2013/01/05 09:16:43
Beepster
Thanks, Scott. That's what I figured. I'm assuming this is a leftover from the days when there weren't as many options. I already use Soundcloud so that should do the trick for now. If I ever get around to building a website though it might be cool to play around with this. I'd imagine using Publisher and hosting the material myself would be cheaper than soundcloud if I started amassing an extremely large catalog... but obviously if it's going to be buggy or prohibitively difficult to use then I'll figure something else out. Cheers. 
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