I’m using Freeway Pro 4.4.2 and I’ve been asked by a musician client to design a a list of 5 sample tunes on a page, each tune of very good quality and am not sure which way to go. QuickTime seems the easiest but it seems I would end up with a page with a huge file size. Flash seems a lot trickier, at least for me - not being into Actionscript, but would eventually have very good quality tracks at a more manageable file size. Has anyone got any recommendations about which way to go and are there any tutorials (Freeway or Flash) that you would recommend in this area?
I don’t understand why not to use mp3. They are readable by any and can be
made to whatever quality you are willing to trade off at. They can be
accessed via a pop up window so as not to load until it is opened.
I am not expert in complexity but that is one way of addressing it.
As far as I can see this is a simple approach.
If I have completely missed the point - forgive me.
all the best
Brian
mikesart said recently:
I’m using Freeway Pro 4.4.2 and I’ve been asked by a musician client to design
a a list of 5 sample tunes on a page, each tune of very good quality and am
not sure which way to go. QuickTime seems the easiest but it seems I would
end up with a page with a huge file size. Flash seems a lot trickier, at least
for me - not being into Actionscript, but would eventually have very good
quality tracks at a more manageable file size. Has anyone got any
recommendations about which way to go and are there any tutorials (Freeway or
Flash) that you would recommend in this area?
I have tried converting to mp3 files and each one is almost twice as big in file size as the page itself - and that’s at a completely unacceptably low quality of sound. Accessing by pop up window may be the go as you say they would load as needed. Thanks for the advice.
You can offer low and high quality sample if you wanted. But if someone
wanted to listen to a whole track rather
than a short sample they would expect 4-10mb as normal.
128 to 192kbs would be the range within I would expect a better quality
sample. Now you could save half the file size if mono were ok.
If I were to put samples out of myself I would either make them shorter or
simply accept that those who want will wait.
But as a savvy user I tend to alt click an mp3 link in any case.
There are ways of embedding them that a lot of sites use which I don’t
understand - but they show up in safari’s activity window and can be got
from there if desired.
The high end way which can be less available for simple download is a
streaming file but I think this would have to be via a server that supports
this and I believe that is costly.
A lot of sites I visit that don’t stream have a full window open with a
QuickTime movie bar and sometimes a bit of a wait.
If this was a smaller pop up via ‘spawn new window’ action it could be less
obscuring of its parent page so one could read or browse while the file
loaded and played.
Just me thinking aloud.
all the best
Brian
mikesart said recently:
I have tried converting to mp3 files and each one is almost twice as big in
file size as the page itself - and that’s at a completely unacceptably low
quality of sound. Accessing by pop up window may be the go as you say they
would load as needed. Thanks for the advice.
I’m using Freeway Pro 4.4.2 and I’ve been asked by a musician client to design a a list of 5 sample tunes on a page, each tune of very good quality and am not sure which way to go. QuickTime seems the easiest but it seems I would end up with a page with a huge file size. Flash seems a lot trickier, at least for me - not being into Actionscript, but would eventually have very good quality tracks at a more manageable file size. Has anyone got any recommendations about which way to go and are there any tutorials (Freeway or Flash) that you would recommend in this area?
