Hi everyone.

I have put together a small site and one of the pages I made is driving me nuts. The page in question is http://sghe900.50webs.com/moddingdownload.html

The page contains 23 links to smallish wav files. Originally I just had links but this was a pain because clicking on the link would launch the helper app so then I tried embedding the files which was no good either as the page was over 2MB.

So then I settled on creating a load of one track m3u playlists and embedding those. This works fine except that browsers now take too long to render it because of all the Quicktime controllers. <sigh>

I'm certain there must be a more efficient way of going about this but I just can't think straight any more.

Could someone please suggest a way of streamlining things?

Thank you.

I believe the problem is the m3u files, they really aren't an audiofile. If they were say aif or wav or 3gp file wrapped in a .mov file then they wouldn't attempt to download until you tried to play them.

Just change the links in your object/embed code from m3u to the wave files and see if that helps.

Hi Jim. That's where I started but browsers then download all the wave files with the page which makes for a long load time.

You're right . . . what I usually do is have each sound link go to another page where the sound/movie is loaded . . . like this.

http://rdiv.com/rdiv_demo

To keep them all from downloading you need to create poster movies .

Hi Jim. Nice site

I'd like to avoid new windows, which is why I changed from having links to the sounds which would open the client's helper app in a new window or whatever. My reason is that the sounds are all only a couple of seconds long which makes new windows somewhat inefficient. Someone suggested using a flashplayer so I tried Wimpy button but it seems to preload the mp3s which bumps up the download time significantly.

Guess I'll have to see if I can work something out with flash myself.

Thanks for your help.

Joe

Done it! I used a flash player called XSPF Music Player which is available at http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

Thre's a button version which did the trick. My problem page now downloads and renders reasonably quickly. I'm so happy!

Cheers