OK, Ladies & Gents, I have uploaded ~ 20 current Latin House genre tracks on my website (click "www" icon below).
Problem is that I spent the better part of last week trying to publish them in such a way as to allow the visitor to download them (for personal listening purposes, of course) as quickly as possible. Even with DSL, it originally took 30 minutes for the whole page to load - no one has such patience.
Please try loading them (for your personal etc., etc.,) and give me some feedback and/or tips. I'm using Dreamweaver 4 & Flash 5 to create my website.
Thanks.
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Downloads happily at 57kb/s from here 
Yes I would like to download some of these! I can listen to them just fine, but I want them as Mp3's!!
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Jorge - try zipping the files using winzip. This will make the files smaller, and when the user has downloaded them into a temporary folder, it will allow them to "unzip" it and save the actual file into a directory.
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| Jorge - try zipping the files using winzip. This will make the files smaller, and when the user has downloaded them into a temporary folder, it will allow them to "unzip" it and save the actual file into a directory. |
OK, click on "La Vida Es Un Carnaval - Celia Cruz". I converted it to a zip file. Let me know if it is downloadable (for personal hygiene...er, listening only, of course).
If everything works, I'll zip-zap them all.
Mind you, I don't know if any of these have made it to the UK, but seeing as Spain is a popular destination for many Brits, the music should be of interest ("Manuel!!! Bring Mrs. Fawlty her cat-o-nine-tails!").
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| Jorge - try zipping the files using winzip. This will make the files smaller, and when the user has downloaded them into a temporary folder, it will allow them to "unzip" it and save the actual file into a directory. |
mp3s are compressed anyway, so the difference in filesize will be minimal but it will make it easier to download (specially if you have one of those stupid media player things that insist on trying to play media files if you click the link). Also might help with your hosting company that probably won't like mp3s on their servers (place I used to work at blocked them at upload time)..This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.