Audio Clips: Playing Back Audio Clips

The Audio Clips section displays the Audio Clips that are available for playback in your episode. Each clip is displayed on its own line, and has its own playback and volume controls, as well as a time display. If you have no audio clips in your account, you will be offered the opportunity to upload new clips into your account. This functionality is described in more detail in the Audio Clips: Uploading section.

Note that before you connect your Host call, you cannot play back any clips: therefore, most of the controls will be hidden until the Host conference is connected.

You can use your mouse to drag and drop each audio clip to change their sort order. Click on anywhere in the clip row except for the Play/Stop button, or the Volume Control, and you can drag the clip to re-sort them any way you like.

Any changes to the Audio Clip sort order will be saved, and re-loaded for you the next time you use the Studio Application. The sort order saving mechanism is specific to your computer and browser - if you load the Studio application on a different computer or in a different browser client, the sort order will go back to the default order.

The name of each audio clip is displayed in the upper left hand corner. This display name is editable in your MyBTR account tools, and you can also set this when you upload new audio clips using Studio.

Each audio clip has two time displays: the one at the top is the total time of the clip; the one at the bottom is the estimated playback time of the clip.

The playback time of the clip counts up from zero once playback has been engaged.

The Play button, when clicked, will start the playback of your audio clip into the webcast. When a clip is playing back, the button changes to a Stop button.

When a clip is playing back, the Play button changes state, into a Stop button.

Clicking the Stop button stops playback of the audio clip, and resets the playback time to zero.

The two icons in the upper right corner of the Audio Clips section are the Filter and Upload Controls.

Clicking on the filter icon, represented by a magnifying glass, will drop down a text form field which you can use to search among your audio clips.
This can be useful if you have a large number of audio clips and can't find what' you're looking for quickly.

Enter any keywords into the form entry field labeled "Enter Keyword" - any text you enter will be matched against the names of your clips, showing only those with names that match the entered text.

Next to the Enter Keyword text form, a Show All button is displayed. Clicking this will clear out any text you've entered into the Enter Keyword form, and will cause all of your audio clips to be displayed.