bigsinky

any ideas how i can embed an mp3 file from my site onto sccobynet

cheers

big sinky

Fatman

You can't embed an audio file on Scoobynet, that would require forming a page with the media player applet. The closest you can get is to link to the MP3 file. You'd use the normal URL code (i.e. [ url]http://domain.com/file.mp3[/url ]).

If it's a page on your own site, you would use insert an media player OBJECT in the page code.

bigsinky

tried that but NTL gives me a 404 error. is there summat about NTL webspace that doesn't allow linkage of files.

cheers

big sinky



[Edited by bigsinky - 5/1/2003 11:41:39 PM]

bigsinky

got it sorted. the file names on my site are case sensitive DOH!!!

thx for the reply anyways

cheers

big sinky

Dizzy

be VERY carefull about putting mp3's on your webspace.. some hosts traul all their hosted folders for "illegal" material... ie. (99.999%) mp3's and have the option to delete them. They may even take it as a breach of the terms and conditions of your agreement and shut ur site down.

IIRC if they host the file they are liable.

Fatman

I can understand their objection if someone were to host lots of MP3s on the ISPs webspace. But just one or two? And how would they know if they're legal?

If you have the CD at home, where's the problem in making an MP3? Leaving it unlinked in your webspace should amount to personal data storage. If you link it and advertise it's presence then that could amount to copyright abuse. But just storing it there...?

Dizzy

I think it really depends on your isp but they can write what they like into your terms and conditions... if they say "we reserve the rite to delete all mp3s without request" then they can do it. IMHO you wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

I dont know how they would check if u renamed em to "thisisntanmp3honest.dat" but hey.

Dont really want to turn this into a "should mp3's be allowed" debate but I'm sure I've read it in some of my terms and conditions etc.

ozzy

if you're publishing anything on the net, always use lower case. It'll save you lots of hassles. The Internet was developed on Unix-style platforms, which have always been case-sensitive.

If your ISP uses a Windows-platform to host webspace, you can get away with it sometimes, but if they use Unix (e.g. Blueyonder) you'll get 404 errors and wonder WTF is wrong

Stefan

Fatman

Good point re: case sensitivity. Simple solution, as mentioned, is to rename the files. Use a non-.mp3 extension. I wonder if double extensions would be picked up?

i.e. song.mp3.htm

Obvious to the human eye what it's intended to be, but perhaps not to an ISP file scanner script?