quicktime movie as audio file

most accepted technique

[brdwlsh]

hi-

i am trying to put audio links on a page. the user should be able to click on a text link and then hear the music.

i was originally planning on having 20sec clips in the interest of wait time but when i converted my 4min song to a quicktime.mov it was only 8kb.

i'm not sure how to go about doing this because the books and websites i have been looking at have different, sometimes conflicting information. i'm not even sure if a qt.mov is the best way to go about it.

i know that the plugin is required--am i wrong to assume that most people have it already?

i uploaded a test page and the link worked on my machine(mac 10.2.6) using IE 5.2, but not mozilla 1.5. The test page also failed to work using IE6 on a windowsXP machine.(the control bar appears, and moves for 4mins, but no sound can be heard using mozillaMAC and windowsIE).

here is a snippet, as you can see a .mov named gtimes exists in a folder called sound.:

<table width="400">
<tr>
<td width="400" height="200" valign="top">
<a href="sound/gtimes.mov">song link</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

can somebody please enlighten me or recommend a current tutorial, one that works in the major browsers.

thank you for your help.

[jamesa]

Here's Apple's tutorial on how to embed a QuickTime mov into a webpage:
[apple.com...]

Though I love QuickTime, for audio I usually use mp3's since most people can play them in their preferred mp3 player app. To stream an mp3, create a text file with a .m3u extension. Inside that text file just put the full url to the mp3 file, i.e.- h*ttp://yourdomain.tld/dir/file.mp3. Point your HREF to the m3u file and that will launch the user's mp3 player and stream the audio to them. Put multiple URL's, one on each line, to create a playlist. Note that the MIME types on the server needs to be configured properly for this to work.

HTH

[brdwlsh]

thanks, but the quicktime thing still doesn't work for me--even with the object tag.

i've decided to use MP3 format instead. i dont know much about MIME types so i'll stay away from streaming, for now.

i need to put short sound clips--20 to 30 seconds--that are taken from an MP3 file. does anyone know of a good MP3 editor for the MACOSX? i'd like to clip the file and add a fade in/out if possible.(preferably free or demo;)