Topic: Click to listen instead of downloading

[anr]

Help appreciated please.

I often upload mp3 files to sites so people can listen to samples.  Many have trouble with the downloading part - lots of popups and so on.

How can I simply provide a link (in a post such as this) so that people can click and it will play?

Thanks

[Gordon]

when clicking a link say in sendspace or something if it's a single mp3 file you should be given the option to open instead of save.  it will then open with whatever player is their default mp3 player.

[anr]

Gordon

Many thanks.  I joined sendspace and, yes, it is a far easier interface. 

[rastasean]

www.soundcloud.com

the free account gives you something like 2 hours of space, so if you're interested in just providing samples, this may work for you.

[newplanet7]

If you have comcast, they give you space to host samples.
Not for download but to stream. It uses quicktime.
http://home.comcast.net/~newplanet7/Mysamples/hdatz2009-12-26s1t1501.mp3

[keith]

How can I simply provide a link (in a post such as this) so that people can click and it will play?

You may want to create an m3u file for each mp3 file, and then give people the option to click the m3u to stream, or the mp3 to download.

An m3u is just a play list, and is a simple text format.  For example, lets say you have an mp3 file here:

   mywebserver/my_cool_song.mp3

You would create an m3u file (my_cool_song.m3u) that contains this text:

   http://mywebserver/my_cool_song.mp3

If someone clicks the m3u file it will start streaming the file.  You would provide a link in the post to the m3u file.

Hope that helps.

[rastasean]

I still think the best thing is
www.soundcloud.com

upload and provide your user name to whoever. got a private track and only want certain people to have access to it, password protect it.

[anr]

Thanks again for the recent replies.  Soundcloud - nice.