I have a client who wants to put music samples on their site. From a repertoire of music I have simply made a hyperlink to an mp3 file to play in quicktime. See: http://www.emperorensemble.com.au/repertoire.html
The hyperlink works and the mp3 plays when I’m working from the desktop, when I try to upload these files the upload fails and there is nothing to hyperlink to from the site online. I know I’m probably doing something wrong or omitting a step or two. Does anyone have any clues as to how to get it to upload so that it works?
Can you FTP into the directory Media and see if they are there online?
Also it would be neater to tidy up the URL by not leaving spaces in folder names creating a %20
David
On 13 Feb 2008, at 01:02, mikesarts wrote:
I have a client who wants to put music samples on their site. From a repertoire of music I have simply made a hyperlink to an mp3 file to play in quicktime. See: http://www.emperorensemble.com.au/repertoire.html
The hyperlink works and the mp3 plays when I’m working from the desktop, when I try to upload these files the upload fails and there is nothing to hyperlink to from the site online. I know I’m probably doing something wrong or omitting a step or two. Does anyone have any clues as to how to get it to upload so that it works?
David Owen
Freeway Friendly Web hosting and Domains ::
By looking at your mp3 links, I would suspect that…
Have you just created the link to the MP3’s from Freeway to your local disc? (Blue Emperor Folder/Blue Emperor Site/Media/brandenburg.mp3) and assumed Free would upload these linked files? They wont upload that way. But they would play locally on your disc.
If you using a FTP program, put your files into a folder called Media in your public folder. Then in the link box, in Freeway create an external link, http://www.emperorensemble.com.au/media/my.mp3. Click the check button and it will check if the link is valid (check if the file is actually there)
Try that.
On 13 Feb 2008, at 01:02, mikesarts wrote:
I have a client who wants to put music samples on their site. From a repertoire of music I have simply made a hyperlink to an mp3 file to play in quicktime. See: http://www.emperorensemble.com.au/repertoire.html
The hyperlink works and the mp3 plays when I’m working from the desktop, when I try to upload these files the upload fails and there is nothing to hyperlink to from the site online. I know I’m probably doing something wrong or omitting a step or two. Does anyone have any clues as to how to get it to upload so that it works?
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Thank you David. That is a very clear and simple explanation of this problem that’s been bugging me, and I suspect others, with Freeway for a long time. I’ll give it a go.
I’ve created a media folder and moved the files on the server and tried the path you suggested. So far no go. In the External Link box there are plenty of choices about what prefix to use. I’ve tried a number: http:// ftp:// file:/// and checked them but no luck. i would have assumed it’s a file, is this correct?
File in this context means that the link is local – on the desktop
of your computer, for example.
Is the media folder inside the same folder as your index.html page?
If you look at your server in an FTP app, do you see index.html and
media/ at the same level? Are you able to manually enter an address
in your browser and arrive at this file? See if http://yourserver.com/
media/yourfile.mp3 will actually load in a browser before you try
anything else in Freeway.
Then if you want to enter an absolute URI, copy it out of the
browser’s location bar, and paste that into the External tab of the
Hyperlink dialog.
Personally, I prefer using relative links, since they don’t break as
easily if you move things around, or from desktop to server. If your
media folder is at the same level of your server’s filesystem as the
page you are linking from, simply enter
media/filename.mp3
in the External tab of the Hyperlink dialog. That will create a
manual link that won’t break, even if you move from your desktop
computer to the server – the file is always “in the folder named
media that’s in the same folder as myself”.
Walter
On Feb 13, 2008, at 3:57 PM, mikesarts wrote:
I’ve created a media folder and moved the files on the server and
tried the path you suggested. So far no go. In the External Link
box there are plenty of choices about what prefix to use. I’ve
tried a number: http:// ftp:// file:/// and checked them but no
luck. i would have assumed it’s a file, is this correct?
Thanks Walter, I have just solved it. It was a simply having an upper M in media instead of the lower case m in the path. It is a relative link I’m using so it shouldn’t break. I’ve certainly learnt a lot about how folders are arranged on the server and how to link them. Thank you all for your help!