A last word on this topic, with thanks to all who chimed in with valuable insight. it appears that the m3u method works just fine for what I wanted (how to create a link that would play all of the MP3s on a given page). In a couple of tests with other people it does launch their MP3 player and it does play the songs according to the sequence they appear on the m3u document
thanks again, Richard On Feb 27, 2013, at 1:31 AM, Richard Huggins <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, here's what happened and what I observed: > > 1. TextEdit would not allow me to put the m3u extension on a txt file. It > refused to accept it. I had converted the default rtf to plain text, so as to > remove any possible encumbrance but nothing worked. Finally i duplicated a > working m3u file on the server side, changed the URLs and gave it a new file > title, then laded it back onto the sever. > > 2. Went to browser and called up the URL of the m3u. Instead of playing > through the browser, though, it downloaded the m3u command onto my computer, > sent it to jTunes and began to play. Other than that, it worked on my > two-song trial file > > 3. Grabbed my iPhone to see what would happen if I tried to play t there. In > this case it did exactly what I hoped: it played both songs through the > browser. > > So, Dennis, what do you use to create your m3u file that allows changing the > filetype to m3u, or what can i do to convince text edit to allow it. If I > changed the extension to m3u *after* reloading it on the server, would that > work? > > Richard > > On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, February 26, 2013 7:15 pm, Richard Huggins wrote: >>> I want every mp3 on the page to be played, unless the listener clicks off, >>> of >>> course. It is meditative music, so I wanted them to be able to hear it with >>> just the single click at\ the start. The sequence of which file plays when >>> is >>> not important. This could be done with an m3u? >> >> Yes. The .m3u file is a text file containing the FULL URL of the file. You >> make a list of them separated by a carriage return and one CR at the end. >> Link >> to the .mp3 file, click on the link and the files play in the order they are >> listed in the .m3u file. >> >> For example, the following text (saved as 'eventide-all.m3u') plays all 8 mp3 >> files of the movements of my piece "Eventide": >> >> >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-1.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-2.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-3.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-4.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-5.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-6.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-7.mp3 >> http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-8.mp3 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
