Adding music

how do you do it.

[mack]

Hi there.
I am in the process of rebuilding my personal homepage and have decided I want to add some music. .wav files are ok if they are of a small file size but this file is pretty large, about 45 meg. How would you people deal with this. I tried uploading the entire mp3 to the site but it just stops and starts (would be ok for a user with fast net conection) does anyone know of any good remote sources where you can link to the files???

thanks in advance.

<edited for typo(s):) >

[habitat675]

what... I don't understand. You're putting a 45 meg sound on your web page? for 45 megs isn't that more than a half hour? I don't really understand what you're saying- are you putting this whole mp3 up to play in the background? Because that makes no sense. Also regardless of where it's hosted you still have to upload it and the users still have to download it. So if I understand correctly 56k users will be waiting for 3 hours or more? I hope that's not what you meant by that! Is that what you meant?

[korkus2000]

You need to come down on the quality of your mp3. Mp3.com has hosting services for streaming if you need that. On band sites I create I make sure their mp3s are under a meg. Actually I make them get it down to like 500K a song. Sounds a little muffled but it does the job. Bandwidth is expensive. I have one band that is starting to take off and they are getting 150 plays a day off of their site. Thats a lot of bandwidth, but I made them make the mp3s small so its not as bad.

[martinibuster]

Never mind.