adding Music to my site

Just wondering what the proper way is to adding some Music clips of my wife and her band to my Website.

should it be in a zip file and make the user download it or should it run directly from a media player that I add to my site.
I need to know the best way that will take the least amount of space.
what format should the file be.
in MP3 a 1:30 min clip is 20MEGs :eek: :eek: Way too much for my 15 availible space.
I only want to add 2-3 clips.
any suggestions.
or programs that could help
I'm usiing Frontpage 2002.

Dude!!! 20 megs for a 1:30 minute song? :eek: :eek:

Recompress the songs at a 128kbps rate instead of 512 or whatever setting you have it at. It'll still sound about the same, and will be a much smaller file size. This is not fact, but the file size should be around 1mb or less for that short amount of tunage.

Also, if she is the owner of the music, then you can provide links to the songs in unzipped format on your website. Just post raw links, or create button links,... whatever is most appealing to you. If your host doesn't allow mp3 file format, then you might consider encoding them in a different format (i.e wma, wav, etc.)

[quote]Originally posted by WebHead:
<strong>Dude!!! 20 megs for a 1:30 minute song? :eek: :eek:

Recompress the songs at a 128kbps rate instead of 512 or whatever setting you have it at. It'll still sound about the same, and will be a much smaller file size. This is not fact, but the file size should be around 1mb or less for that short amount of tunage.

Also, if she is the owner of the music, then you can provide links to the songs in unzipped format on your website. Just post raw links, or create button links,... whatever is most appealing to you. If your host doesn't allow mp3 file format, then you might consider encoding them in a different format (i.e wma, wav, etc.)</strong><hr></blockquote>

:eek: is what I said about the 20MEG file A guy that plays for my wifes band is handleing the file's so I don't know what he is doing to cut the files. I let him know that they should be no more that 1 meg and get back to you.

which will take less space on my site : having the user download or having them listen to it througha media player on my site?

20Mb's would be about right for a 1:30min .wav file.....definitely a conversion is called for.

Will get my buddy to post here and tell what he has done.

[quote]Originally posted by Sowulo:
<strong>20Mb's would be about right for a 1:30min .wav file.....definitely a conversion is called for.</strong><hr></blockquote>

True, but Danimal specified MP3 in the original post. If it were WAV format that we were talking about, then that certainly would be a horse of a different color. :D

The thing about leaving them on your site and haveing listeners listen to them through your site is I don't know how much more your bandwith will be. If they download it, then you only have to worry about the bandwith for people downloading. Hopefully they download it once, and listen to it many times, instead of keep pulling it from your site making bandwith jump pretty high. Have you looked into seeing if you can have a site at mp3.com? Not sure how much that will cost, but it would be more geared toward what you want to do I think.

[quote]Originally posted by TheTechHandbook.com:
<strong>The thing about leaving them on your site and haveing listeners listen to them through your site is I don't know how much more your bandwith will be. If they download it, then you only have to worry about the bandwith for people downloading. Hopefully they download it once, and listen to it many times, instead of keep pulling it from your site making bandwith jump pretty high. Have you looked into seeing if you can have a site at mp3.com? Not sure how much that will cost, but it would be more geared toward what you want to do I think.</strong><hr></blockquote>

there's only going to be about 3-4 clip max on my budy's site that I will link to and from my site. to meit doesn't matter.

maybe you guys could post the steps to make a clip ready for the web
Starting from a CDRW that has 2 songs on it.
which software to use to break it down and which format to save it as. then we can deal with the uploading of the file . whether to make the user download or not.

Hey dudes. Thanks for your help. I'm the guy danimal is talking about here. Turned out that my MP3 compressor is bugged. Anybody know a good freebie compressor?

Actually Mike the computer guy in town said to use real Jukeboc to cut and edit music files.
and to save them in MP3 file format.

Wannabe geek! ROFLMAO!!! LOL

[quote]Originally posted by DANIMAL:
<strong>Actually Mike the computer guy in town said to use real Jukeboc to cut and edit music files.
and to save them in MP3 file format.

Wannabe geek! ROFLMAO!!! LOL</strong><hr></blockquote>

Go with Music Match. It uses one of the compression schemes that the person that created mp3's created. I wish I could find the link about it, but the compression is great.