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1 It takes too long to download a song,
2 I want to put the site onto a CD that he can hand out around the clubs, pubs, etc. Ideally, I'd like the CD to run automatically and open at the 'home page'.
I'd really appreciate any advice in getting around these two problems
Stephen
[edited by: rcjordan at 2:36 pm (utc) on Oct. 26, 2003]
[edit reason] sorry, no specifics, please. see TOS [/edit]
A good tutorial on how to add a site to a CD can be found at :
h*tp://www.dreamweaver-extensions.com/
You will also need to remove your URL from the post as it is against the T.O.S
[webmasterworld.com...]
Karl :)
Sure stick the tracks on CD, DVD posssibly with a splash page and a link to the site...
HTH
Rich
There was no contact details, history, photos or anything. At least with the site written to CD, he can hand out the CD's and get a full picture (no pun intended) of the band.
With the mp3's around 4MB each the download time on a dial up in prohibitive. I wonder if its possible to resample the mp3 files and make them smaller with an acceptable loss of quality?
Any suggestion appreciated
Stephen
No probs you are definitely going the right way with offline content I'd be tempted to go full 44k, let's face it mp3 well they are great on line but... You have got the "space to include video + the site, I'm assuming that it's a good site, if not strip it down to basics, if you’ve got time turn it into a full blown multimedia concept, it will look great, sound great and everyone will love you ;0
Use a mixed format for the CD then audio only is OK or anyone on a PC can see he lot.
Rich
for the various solution to getting a CD to autorun on entry into the CD drive.
You could try to package browsers on the CD or assume that the user will usually have a browser on their machine.
Question option is to whether you need to make an entry page graphic .. or icon file .. there is an autorun confiiguration which will startup fire the browser to open the index page of the site but my last attempt using that did not autorun on all machine configurations requiring as it does an exe file to be run.
Anyhow lots of options on the search list. Do you assume tha all your users will have the audio devices needed to hear the tracks?
hth
In an earlier post in this thread, curlykarl pointed me to h*tp://www.dreamweaver-extensions.com/ After some time playing about with it I got it to run fine. Maybe Mark_A might like to have a look at this as he was having some problems with it or a similar prog. when he tried it last. It works find on WinXP with IE6 and Win ME but I havnt got to test it on other browsers. It has its own splash page which you can edit and add styles to it, but I think it would be a great idea to put, eg, a large Flash file on it.
The problem still exists though, of how to reduce the size of the mp3 files on the net. Does anyone know how to reduce the size of them without cutting their length? Presently a dialup takes about 20 mins to download just one song - about 19 mins too much!
Stephen
You've run into the thorny quality V size issue
MP3 bit rate can be dropped as far as 8 bit (sounds yuk), so it's down to what is acceptable for both parties
Convert stereo to mono, for a smaller file size
Another op[tion might be to provide a very small demo and then an option to download the whole thing.
Rich
Can you tell me how to do that please?
Stephen
:)
