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Topic: mp3 skips ?

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Topic: mp3 skips ?

[sb.net]

On my site http://www.synth38.com/ the mp3s skip. Help me.

[Jorge]

It's probebly that you can't send the file fast enough to the client. Try setting WMP/WINAMP/Whatever to a larger buffer and see if it still happens if not its defently a shortage of banthwidth

[sb.net]

how do i do that. is it in the apache config?

[Jorge]

No its client side... example:

You send a file of 120kb at 1kb sec. so it would take 2 minutes to download

Your client buffers 60k and start playsing, the 60 is audio for 7 seconds... see the problem it wouln't have gotten the next 60kb to contineu playing.


It would be around 67kb ... now if you increase the client buffer to hold more data this problem can be fixed.


(note this is an exteme case i used for example)

[Brian]

Another option would be to send a header for that file type that indicates to the client's browser that this a file that requires download instead of opening with the client's default program (i.e. WinAmp in this case). This way they would download it then they could play it.

[sb.net]

even if i right click and press save link as, it does not work. it says it in not an audio file.

[Brian]

Hmmm,

Well if you have a public URL, perhaps you could past a very small, 8k or so, file and let us try it out to see what the server responds with ... is that a possibility.

Or perhaps you would prefer to simply email me a link to a sample file that is giving you fits, you can email me if you wish to at:

info at Webbywarehouse dot com

Either way, I'd be happy to help if I am able to.

--
Brian

[James Blond]

I am able to download the mp3 from synth38 dot com

[Brian]

whew!

I did not notice the link at the top, sorry for that. I also was able to dl a file, no problem what-so-ever. Anyway, so maybe it is for you a browser issue. Try another browser, and try it from another computer outside of your network (though being outside of the network should not make any difference, just give it a shot...).



Seems like the server is sending the proper headers, only thing left as far as I can see is a client side issue.

[sb.net]

i tried it on both of our computers and both browsers. same result. did you listen to it?

[sb.net]

I had a problem once on another server. I had to enable page output buffering for large downloads to work.

I could just host them over ftp.

[Brian]

what exactly does that mean, "enable page output buffering for large downloads"?

Is this something you did within PHP using PHP to enable and institute the downloads? I am a little confused since it looks like we are simply connecting to a file on the server and Apache (or what ever platform) is serving up the file.

Just curious.

Oh, and perhaps the problem is with the file encoding itself? I could not get the file I downloaded to play in WinAmp or WMP, and if it's an mp3 it should have played properly upon complete download anyway.

[DeliriumServers]

is it possible that something like mod_deflate is set to compress this, which would mess it up?

[sb.net]

[Jorge]

[sb.net]

i do not know.

[Brian]

I had not thought of mod_deflate with a multi-media file. I cannot think of any scenerio where you'd use mod_deflate with any form of multi-media file, none.

You know what though, I downloaded a track and it would not play for me either, not at all. The file's extensionthat I downloaded was 'mp3', but of course that means squat in truth.

So I suspect from my own very limitted experiment that these are not audible files, that they are not mp3's or that they are currupt some how.

Did any of the files play for anyone else?

[sb.net]

the files did not play.

[James Blond]

The files are broken! You should replace them!

[sb.net]

they work when i open the from the folder they were hosted from.!?