I need audio web tech help PLEASE
Monday, April 9, 2007 at 9:05
Update 07:33 am: problem solved. I just re-encoded the mp3 at a lower bitrate. all good now. Thanks, Mike, for being willing to help. I can go to sleep now
My podcast is not streaming correctly from either my blog or the main website. Check it out. Look at this blog entry, and you'll see a graphic that says "+ Audio MP3" Clicking on it results in garbled madness. But if you click on "download the mp3 file," it works fine. Also, earlier podcasts work with the flash player.
Similarly, look on my main website and try to play the most recent podcast with the blue play button. same garbage. but click on any previous episode, and it's fine.
Both the most recent and prior seven podcasts were made with Garageband, exported to iTunes and converted to mp3 in iTunes.
The files are hosted on different servers, cause i thought that might help, since the problem was there when they were on the same servers.
i have no idea what to do, and I want it to be easy for people to play the episode right in their browsers. this is so sad. i just decided to re-commit to the podcast, and this crap happens. makes me want to stick to text blogging and twitter. audio and video are a lot of work, and I don't have time for the b.s. associated with them. i started the podcast at 9:30pm, and it's 6am now.
how do people do it???
Reader Comments (2)
How do people do it? They know "the Mac way[tm]". ;) But seriously.
What widget are you using to stream the audio through the site? First thing I'd look at is that, not the audio file. Looks like your files are served up off box.net; I don't have an account, but a quick glance tells me they show a different flash widget for embedding files on their site.
I'm assuming that you haven't upgraded iTunes in the process here, so that none of its settings for creating mp3 files have changed. (Not that they would in an upgrade, but they could.)
I'm trying to think of another mp3 encoder for the Mac, but must claim ignorance (and a lack of Googling ability this early in the day) to recommend one. I know of a handful on the PC; if you want to hook me up with the raw audio in wav, aiff, or another format (not sure how Garageband stores the files) I can re-encode for you on another machine and rule out the mp3 file itself.
thanks mike. it's all fixed. good idea about encoding. i just did it again at a lower bitrate. not even sure i needed to lower it, but there it is
i don't want to use the boxnet widget because it may not register in my feedburner account and would require manual setup each time
on this blog, i'm using a player called anarchy i think. just some javascript across the site which builds a player for any mp3 file