Need Help With Embeded Music File
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Topic: Need Help With Embeded Music File
Posted By: peaches
Subject: Need Help With Embeded Music File
Date Posted: 31 July 2003 at 12:21pm
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Hi,
Hope I'm in the right place for this question. I'm designing my first site. My client wanted a brief piece of music embedded on the splash page. He gave me his music as an aiff. Since the page already has a large sliced graphic, adding this 28 sec. music clip really jacked up the download time of the page. So I imported it into Quick Time player which compressed it from 64 MB down to 8KM. I burned a copy of my entire site onto disc so I can show it to the client on my laptop. I just tested the site on the browser of my laptop, and the music didn't play. I clicked on the song.mov file, and I got a message that it was searching for the original aiff file instead! Anothet pop up appeared, and it said the music cannot play properly without this file. Now, if I converted it into a .mov file, how is it possible that it somehow retained the aiff information? Any ideas? I'm totally baffled. Hope you can help, or at least direct me to an area that might enlighten me about this. Thanks! 
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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 03 August 2003 at 3:34pm
| have you double-checked the source code to make sure that it's updated with the new file name? |
Posted By: peaches
Date Posted: 03 August 2003 at 5:06pm
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Hi,
Thanks for the response. Yes, I did check the source code and the updated file did replace the older one. Since this only happened on my laptop, I assumed it was a problem with my older ibook. After tweeking my site on my desktop, all seemed to be in working order so I uploaded it this afternoon. However, all the music files and the slideshow I put together using quick time doesn't work at all. The splash page which is supposed to play a brief piece of embedded music doesn't work. Then there's a music page with links to songs that don't play, and now I've discovered that the slideshow I created doesn't work either. When any of those links are clicked, a page comes up with all gibberish. Is the embedded code possibly wrong? Would you mind taking a look ? www.powerofcohesion.com. Thanks... 
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 05 August 2003 at 10:51am
| I wouldnt use quicktime because it isn't installed on a lot of windows machines, if I was you I would use flash... |