Easiest way to do music clips for Zoom trivia
May 28, 2020 12:50 PM Subscribe
I'm doing Zoom trivia and would like to make a music category with clips. What is the absolute easiest way to do this? Assume I am extremely stupid about technology and cannot follow the internet instructions that already exist. They always seem to skip about five steps that I need.
I have looked up ways to do this, and they are all beyond me. I'm thinking the easiest way would be to put clips on my phone somehow and play them (it's an iPhone), but I'm up for other suggestions. And I have no idea how to put clips on my phone. I have the Amazon prime music app on my phone and I have physical CDs. I do not have any other music apps, though I'm not opposed to getting one (it does not have to be free). I'm not on Facebook, so please don't suggest anything that requires Facebook (I believe at least one music streaming service did at one point, but I don't know if that's still true).
Again, assume I have no idea how to do any of this. None. I cannot stress that enough.
Thanks!
I have looked up ways to do this, and they are all beyond me. I'm thinking the easiest way would be to put clips on my phone somehow and play them (it's an iPhone), but I'm up for other suggestions. And I have no idea how to put clips on my phone. I have the Amazon prime music app on my phone and I have physical CDs. I do not have any other music apps, though I'm not opposed to getting one (it does not have to be free). I'm not on Facebook, so please don't suggest anything that requires Facebook (I believe at least one music streaming service did at one point, but I don't know if that's still true).
Again, assume I have no idea how to do any of this. None. I cannot stress that enough.
Thanks!
I have used AudioTrimmer to make music clips for an online trivia site. I uploaded an mp3 from my desktop, created a short music clip and then downloaded it to the desktop.
Once you have a clip, you can rename it whatever you want and you should be able to play it over zoom via your desktop without having to use a separate device.
posted by mogget at 1:10 PM on May 28, 2020
Once you have a clip, you can rename it whatever you want and you should be able to play it over zoom via your desktop without having to use a separate device.
posted by mogget at 1:10 PM on May 28, 2020
This may not work for you if you need clips, but just in case: we recently did an audio round of trivia in real time by just locating the songs on YouTube and cuing them up to the selections we wanted. It worked well.
posted by ferret branca at 2:16 PM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by ferret branca at 2:16 PM on May 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
This seems like a reasonable guide to playing music over Zoom.
posted by zamboni at 2:26 PM on May 28, 2020
posted by zamboni at 2:26 PM on May 28, 2020
Response by poster: I should also mention that I have iTunes on my MacBook and could use those songs.
posted by FencingGal at 2:26 PM on May 28, 2020
posted by FencingGal at 2:26 PM on May 28, 2020
I am on my phone right now so can’t link to details, but PowerPoint might work well for this.
posted by eleanna at 2:43 PM on May 28, 2020
posted by eleanna at 2:43 PM on May 28, 2020
I don't know if your question is how do I make music clips or how do I share music clips, but I'm going to answer the one I know the answer to.
Put the clips on your computer, into whatever app you want to use. If you have audio files you can put them into google drive and play them right from google drive even, clicking the file will open an audio player in your browser.
Share your screen from the Zoom meeting you're hosting. You're probably doing this anyway if you're putting trivia questions up for people to see. The key here is that there's a tiny checkbox that's easy to miss at the bottom of the share menu that says "share computer sound." That's what you want. That will share your computer's native audio and the sound quality is much better than what your computer mic will pick up through its own speakers.
If you're not sharing your screen, you can share sound ONLY by clicking the advanced tab at the top of the share menu (you still get to that by clicking the screen share button in your active meeting) and clicking "music or computer sound only."
Once you've shared your computer's audio whatever audio you play on your computer will be nice and clear for everyone on your call.
posted by phunniemee at 3:09 PM on May 28, 2020 [3 favorites]
Put the clips on your computer, into whatever app you want to use. If you have audio files you can put them into google drive and play them right from google drive even, clicking the file will open an audio player in your browser.
Share your screen from the Zoom meeting you're hosting. You're probably doing this anyway if you're putting trivia questions up for people to see. The key here is that there's a tiny checkbox that's easy to miss at the bottom of the share menu that says "share computer sound." That's what you want. That will share your computer's native audio and the sound quality is much better than what your computer mic will pick up through its own speakers.
If you're not sharing your screen, you can share sound ONLY by clicking the advanced tab at the top of the share menu (you still get to that by clicking the screen share button in your active meeting) and clicking "music or computer sound only."
Once you've shared your computer's audio whatever audio you play on your computer will be nice and clear for everyone on your call.
posted by phunniemee at 3:09 PM on May 28, 2020 [3 favorites]
In case it is helpful: you can share any window in zoom and your participants will only see that window no matter what else you do with your computer or whatever else you tile atop that shared window. So click screen share, pick to share your pre-opened photo app or web browser which is set to a nice picture, then go ahead and open and use whatever other windows or program you need to play clips as per phunniemee and ferret blanca. People will not see what you manipulate, just the screen you chose to share.
posted by holyrood at 11:22 PM on May 28, 2020
posted by holyrood at 11:22 PM on May 28, 2020
Response by poster: So none of these were quite on my level (like I vaguely know what an mp3 file is, but no idea how I would get one on my computer or where it would live there - are iTunes songs mp3's? I don't know. Nor do I know what "put the clips on the computer" means. How? Where?). My daughter-in-law came up with something, which I'll share for future Askers.
I got a Spotify account, made a playlist, and wrote down at which point I wanted each clip to start. (The YouTube idea was the most doable, but I couldn't figure out a way to not have to listen to commercials.) I tested it on Zoom with a friend.
Thanks for trying!
posted by FencingGal at 10:42 AM on May 31, 2020
I got a Spotify account, made a playlist, and wrote down at which point I wanted each clip to start. (The YouTube idea was the most doable, but I couldn't figure out a way to not have to listen to commercials.) I tested it on Zoom with a friend.
Thanks for trying!
posted by FencingGal at 10:42 AM on May 31, 2020
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posted by zamboni at 12:53 PM on May 28, 2020