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Pastimes : NNBM - SI Branch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: abuelita who wrote (36686)	10/22/2004 6:02:53 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

rockets- what i want to be able to do is post to you a link to a favourite opera section from donizetti's lucia di lammermoor (or not <g>) the way you post the mystery songs. do you have the music piece or is it on the web somewhere in an accessible digital format? if it's on the web just post the URL. if it's on a personal CD you'll need to... 1) rip it to a digital file, preferably in .mp3 format 2) ftp that .mp3 file to some web storage space that you have access to. OR email the file to me. (email is probably out because the .mp3 file is probably too large to email.) OR burn it to a CD and snail mail it. 3) if you do upload the file to some web storage space then you would simply post the URL to the file that you uploaded. it's basically the same process as sharing pictures except there are not many free web hosts that let you upload and share auido files freely because of the bandwidth required and the copyright issues. streamload used to do this (with limits) but they are not free anymore. does your ISP provide you with free webspace? most ISP's do. comcast provides me with 25 MB of storage (no traffic or bandwidth usage restrictions). the free webhosting site i found a couple weeks ago; prohosting.com gives you 50 MB of storage for free (with banner ads) but it's a little tricky to set up your FTP access for uploading files and then, as we discovered, when someone tries to download an .mp3 file it defaults to some code requiring them to play the file with the quicktime player and doesn't let the visitor actually save the file to their hard drive directly. it's all kind of a headache and it's partly why i don't share a mystery song every night like i used to. -tanks