I have been adding audio files to a website but just dragging the mp3 file onto the page and then setting them as QuickTime. A QuickTime player then appears in the site.
I would like to have these same mp3 files downloadable so people can save them. Is there an easy way to do this.
I haven’t been using the software long and know very little about web design.
Thanks.
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Just provide a link to a zipped version of the file ie yourmp3.zip
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I should probably add that once you have created your zipped versions you can use the action ‘Link to File’ to handle the linking and uploading for you.
Caveat - if you have a lot of these (and they are quite large files) FW can potentially want to reupload the files every time you update a page.
If I was doing this I would create a folder on my server ie ‘downloads’ where I would manually upload these files using an FTP app like Cyberduck.
Then I would create an external link in FW to the file(s) so removing the upload from FW’s control.
But this may not be an issue if you only have a few relatively small sized files.
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Thanks. I will try this. They are fairly large 10-12mb but I use an FTP uploaded everytime anyway not the (FileZilla)donor a problem.
I changed the format from QuickTime to “audio” and found this allowed the user to download the file by right clicking on the player.
However the downside is that the mp3 controller does not appear on the page if using Firefox or earlier versions of IE.
I just can’t win.
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I am suggesting that you have the file for listening and a link to another file (the zipped version) for downloading.
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Yes, the
Firefox doesn’t like MP3 because it is patent-encumbered. Older IE is constrained by a lack of imagination on the part of its developers.
What you can do is put more than one format of audio in the same container. Look in the third tab of the Inspector while your
The beauty of the
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On Nov 17, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Adam W wrote:
However the downside is that the mp3 controller does not appear on the page if using Firefox or earlier versions of IE.
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Thanks Walter, I did realise that’s what source 2 etc meant, that’s awesome. I can’t use a wav file because it is to big. I am putting up 40min lectures. I have the mp3’s at about 12mb but the wav file ends up at 100+mb. I will put in a QuickTime and something else for Firefox.
And thanks Dave, I have added some extra text linked to a download of the file.
Thanks
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There’s more than one flavor of WAV, I think. Some of them can be quite compressed. I haven’t tried to do 40 minutes before, but you may want to experiment with bit depth and compression in your audio application before you give up on WAV. I believe it is the only universal audio format on the Web – all the browsers like it. The other thing you can do is look at AudioJS (there may even be an Action for it), which lets you play MP3 on all browsers by automatically wrapping the audio file in a Flash player on browsers that don’t support MP3.
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On Nov 17, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Adam W wrote:
Thanks Walter, I did realise that’s what source 2 etc meant, that’s awesome. I can’t use a wav file because it is to big. I am putting up 40min lectures. I have the mp3’s at about 12mb but the wav file ends up at 100+mb. I will put in a QuickTime and something else for Firefox.
And thanks Dave, I have added some extra text linked to a download of the file.
Thanks
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