Background Music Best Practice

Hello all,
New to the community and fairly new to Flash and Actionscript. I would like to know what's the best practice you add a background music to my page with play/stop buttons when using SWFobject?
I have seen a ton of tutorials on externally loading songs in, but in a recent project in class, when importing a SWF into a pre-written HTML code, the sound does not start even with the song in the same folder. I would like to know if there is a way to fix this or do anyone have an example of how to do this with embedded sound instead?

Ok so maybe this is me being a Newb and not phrasing this question right or maybe I'm just not seeing your picture, but I'm not saying SWFObject has anything to do with sound. From what I have experienced, it takes your SWF and generate a wrapper/div for it to be shown/hosted in the html site. Now with Flash they also publish an html, and from my experience it doesn't work as well as SWFObject on browser support.
Ok so the thing is I'm sure if I create a background sound loaded externally and publish with Flash and bring that html into dreamweaver the sound works, but what about doing it with SWFObject? I had an assignment and the sound worked when tesing the swf alone, but when I gave my team member the swf to add to her pre coded html in dreamweaver, everything worked but the sound. And yes the sound files were included when she received them. Hope this help you understand my problem. If not, I will do an external script again and try to host it, if the sound doesn't work I will post the code.

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We-ell, since no-one else has replied:
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Hi Steve,
Might be trying for solution for a long time, If i understood your question clear let me clarify you few points.
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Unknown / unidentified people.
What I am not yet certain about is how to handle unknown / unidentified people. Unidentified people fall into a number of different categories.
People I don't know and I am never likely to know (Eg random strangers on the street, local tour guides on holiday, random people in the background etc)
This group is relatively easy to deal with - that is to simply delete the face recognition, End of story.
People I don't know the names of yet but I am likely to find out (Eg actors in a production for which I don't have a programme)
For these people I am making up a unique name using the format "date/ Context-Gendernn" Eg an unknown male actor at Stockport Garrick Theatre would be named as "20150313/ SGT-M01" Although this may appear a complex solution it has a number of advantages. If/when I do learn the name of the individual (Eg I photograph them in a different production) it is simply a case of renaming the people keyword. Creating a unique name and not simple assigning all unknowns to a bucket name will help the face recognition algorithms find this person without it being confused by have different faces assigned to the same name. I am also using the hashtage #U to make it easier to filter the unknown faces when I need to.
People I don't know the names of and there is only a slim possibility of meeting/photographing again (Eg guests as a client weeding)
It feels as though I out to just delete the face recognition and have done with it, and this is what I would do except for thing. Other than manually drawing face regions I have not yet found a way to get lightroom to rescan a folder for faces if you have previously deleted the face recognition. This means that deleting face regions from a large number of people is something that cannot be easily reversed. I might just leave these people in the "Unnamed People" category... at lease until such time as there is a way to rescan a folder or colectoin.
Summary
My practices are still evolving. But I hope these thoughts and idea will help others think through the issues and come up with solutions that work for their situation. I am interested in hearing how other people are using the face recognition system. Especially if anyone is aware of any 'best practices' that Adobe or anyone else has recommended.

Glad it helped.
Yes and no. You can still put the people keywords into hierarchies within the keyword list - you can arrange them just like any other keywords.so you just create a "smith family" keyword and store "john smith" under it. What you can't do is apply BOTH smith family and john smith the the same face.
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Do people have experience or recommendation about the best configuration?
I'm attracted to the first option (perhaps naively) because CI/storage would benefit
from dedicated bandwidth and this configuration might also be more secure.
Regards,
Robert.

user1070509 wrote:
Option #4 (802.3ad) looks promising, but I don't know if this can be made to work across
separate switches.It can, if your switches support cross-switch trunking. Essentially, 802.3ad (also known as LACP or EtherChannel on Cisco devices) requires your switch to be properly configured to allow trunking across the interfaces used for the bond. I know that the high-end Cisco and Juniper switches do support LACP across multiple switches. In the Cisco world, this is called MEC (Multichassis EtherChannel).
If you're using low-end commodity-grade gear, you'll probably need to use active/passive bonds if you want to span switches. Alternatively, you could use one of the balance algorithms for some bandwitch increase. You'd have to run your own testing to determine which algorithm is best suited for your workload.
The Linux Foundation's Net:Bonding article has some great information on bonding in general, particularly on the various bonding methods for high availability:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bonding

Best practice file management

Hello everyone
I'm hoping to receive some advice on the best way to store a large collection of music, pictures and video, whilst keeping my computer as empty as possible to maximise it's processing power for professional video editing in the future. The computer is for both personal and business use, and I share it with my partner who is a music fiend, but not computer savvy.
I have recently purchased a new 27" iMac with the standard specs (3.1GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 4GB memory, 1TB hard drive). It is currently running Snow Leopard (v. 10.6.6), and I plan to update to Lion when I purchase a new broadband account.
I also have:
One external 1TB Western Digital drive, currently at 85% capacity, with music, videos and pictures
One external 1TB Western Digital drive, currently empty
A new 2TB time capsule which is not yet set up
Apple TV, not yet set up
A mobile USB modem and basic account, soon to be replaced by a fairly high speed broadband modem with a fairly large download cap
So far, I have:
created three user profiles - one administrator, and two users
Set up iTunes so each user shares a single library and itunes media folder
We would like to also digitise a large collection of CDs and records.
I was thinking about using the time capsule not only for storage/back up, but also to create a wireless network, allowing it to be stored with my printer and the hard drives can be stored in different room to the computer, away from sight. The computer is so very gorgeous on it's own after all.... I've been advised also to use it as a wireless router when we purchase our broadband account, so I'm assuming the modem should also be connected to the time capsule in the other room.
Rather than droning on about what I think I should do, I wondered if one of you experts could advise me on the best way to set everything up? I'm not sure that it's the best idea to set it up so the computer is always having to find files wirelessly from the time capsule and connected drives... Wouldn't that be slow?
The advice I've read in the various forums has been rather confusing, so your advice would be really appreciated!!
Cheers
Fiona

Hi Fiona,
Like your question, I'm in same boat and new to iMAC all together and want to setup backup and sharing strategy via best practice right up front. Did you get any response or any good best practice you ran across in your research you an share with me? Thanks.

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