Does anyone know if there’s an issue with posting MP3 files at Geocities? If not, can you take a look at this page and tell me what in the heck I’m doing wrong?
http://www.geocities.com/shmorrissc/practicetunes.html
Redwolf
Looking at your source code (a href=“shepherdshey.mp3”), it looks like it should work just fine.
The only thing I can think of is that A) you didn’t transfer your mp3 file to the server (it’s still on your personal computer - but I don’t think so since there’s no extra file references) or B) it’s in a folder (e.g. “Songs/shepherdshey.mp3”) so that when the link tries to look for it, it can’t find it. Recheck where everything is (although I know you probably tried that a million times).
Seriously, it should work. 
That’s what I thought. It’s definitely on Geocitie’s server, and not in a subfolder. If I go to the file manager and just click on the actual MP3 file it works fine. But if I go to the page and click on the link, it tells me the file isn’t there. I’ve had Geocities pages for years and never seen the like…but then I’ve never tried putting MP3 files on them. 
Redwolf
Both tunes play just fine now, but earlier I was getting the message that your website had exceeded it’s bandwidth limits.
Geocities does some pretty strange things sometimes.
I cancelled my account years ago when they insisted for several weeks in a row that I had exceeded my bandwidth limits to an utterly impossible degree, and none of my protesting e-mails to them were ever answered. :roll:
I’m still getting that “exceeded bandwidth” message. Grrrr. Heck, the site only takes up a little more than 5 meg of disk space and hardly anyone ever visits it, so how it could exceed its bandwidth is anybody’s guess.
When I first started trying to upload the pages, it would tell me that the files weren’t available when I clicked on the MP3 links. This is very frustrating! I just want them there so the kids can download them for practice.
Redwolf
Geocities is a real colossal pain when it comes to hosting large files.
How big are these files? If not too large I’m sure some of us could help you host them. I have some webspace that I don’t use very often, myself.
Caj
The problem is, they really need to be clickable from the website. Thanks anyway, though.
Redwolf
Red: One thing you might want to do is manipulate the mp3s to be smaller files. For instance, making it mono rather than stereo, using excerpt instead of whole piece, etc. Sorry if you already know that.
I could access (at least one of) the files just fine.
And I would guess (off the top of my head) that bandwidth is defined by the number of bytes being sent, rather than the number of requests, so for instance one user downloading a 5 Mb file would be the equivalent (bandwidth-wise) of 1000 requests for a 5 kb webpage…
/Jens