Tech: How do I upload MP3?

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 09:47 PM

Dave: get another ISP; "free" all too often means "crap". When I looked at your site, two junk advert windows opened; these will slow down any transfer dramatically, and will discourage visitors. Also, you should ensure that all the template pages you've decided to use are properly modified before you allow them to be accessed. "Insert text for Header 6 Here" isn't a message that will inspire potential clients with a great deal of confidence in you.

Think about it this way: did you learn to play the guitar in two or three hours? Websites take time and effort, too (though not as much); anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar.

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 09:05 PM

Dave, to start with, will a mp3 file upload?

Malcolm, I wouldn't be so sure. My HTML is very basic and I don't have a clue about some areas like Cascading Style Sheets.

My policy is to try to the best of my ability to make as much use of the underlying technologies (in my case, asp, php, cgi and relational database) as I can but to churn out very basic HTML from it. For what I attempt, I've never seen the need to complicate things further or to learn other areas.

Jon

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 08:41 PM

I have what appears to be a similar problem.   I have a free website at 50megs.com. It's not finished yet because I can't figure out how to insert a playable file.

It's accessible RIGHT HERE

I'm not sure, but I suspect that the host has deliberately made it difficult or impossible to insert a playable or a downloadable file in the free websites; they want to rent you higher capacity.

Any ideas?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 08:30 PM

Jon knows more than me about all that technical stuff!

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 08:11 PM

And honestly, I'd not read Malcolms post when I made mine!!!

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 08:10 PM

Joe, it is 'Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"'

I don't like to be nasty but a lot reds like unnecessary junk and I can see no evidence of any mp3 files referenced in the html. I suspect that is the problem rather than the mp3s not uploading.

Greg, if you want, you know you can contact me at [e-mail] and I'll try to help yuo get a working site.

Jon

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 07:59 PM

Never use Microsoft software to build a website. You'll wind up with whole pages of unnecessary (and often wrong) code which may not work in anybody else's browser. Your page is at present three or four times the file-size it needs to be, 'cos of all the junk MS has dumped into it. Also, don't use RealPlayer for mp3s; it should really only be used for soundfiles in .ra format, as it's aggressively built and will interfere with all sorts of things you didn't expect it to.

Having said all that, the main reason the soundfiles won't play is as Joe said: you haven't provided a URL (address) for them. Browsers can't cope with "you know, that house with a green door -or it might be blue- perhaps, just a bit down the road from where the scrapyard used to be, only it isn't now"... you have to be very specific.

If you want a boring (but problem-solving) lecture on the subject, just let me know.

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: IvanB
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 07:29 PM

Most web hosts will allow FTP access, which allows you to see your website as a file within a directory on the server. Then, it's just a matter of copying the sound file from your PC to the server (either to the same directory as your web page or, you can create a subdirectory just to hold sound files) and making an HTML reference to it in the code for your page. There are a number of free FTP programs around. It's probably easiest to save the files in the web page's directory, then the code Joe outlined above will work. If you put it into a subdirectory, you have to point to that subdirectory as well as to the filename in you HTML code. The main reason for using subdirectories is to make files easier to find if you're using a lot of them. The main directory will work fine if you only intend to use a few sound files.

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 06:10 PM

Hi Joe. Thanks for responding. I recorded a couple of tracks on Eric T Viking's minidisc, loaded them as wav. files, emailed then to my buddy Simon Styles (whistle manufacturer, architect, fellow cyclist and all-round good egg) who returned them by e-mail as MP3s, I saved them in RealPlayer as MP3s, I then hit 'save to website', and attached them to the website by hyperlink, but they didn't survive the transition to the website page.

Subject: RE: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 06:00 PM

Hi, Skipjack - it's a nice site, but I don't see any links to the sound files, something that says

<a href="/songnamehere.mp3">Click to listen</a>

What software are you using to design the site, and what's supposed to appear in the boxes after"listen"?
Best of luck.
-Joe offer-

Subject: Tech: How do I upload MP3?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 03 Apr 03 - 05:35 PM

Hello my friends. I am still on Lententide withdrawal from this site, but I figured a technical question was exempt, as long as you tell me no gossip.

I have a ceilidh band, and have bravely (for a technophobe) attempetd to mount a website. The site is here , but I'm having the devil of a job to upload the sound files, which is the only real reason to have the blinking website.

Can any of you good people tell me what in God's heaven I need to do to make these blessed MP3s play online?