I'm in a bind with my projector/Shockwave language learning application. The user will record her audio homework, and I want it uploaded to my server. The recording works great using Audio Xtra from Upstage, but it will not record in a compressed format, such as mp3 or RealMedia. It records wave files under Windows and aiff files under Mac OS. So the student will typically have 5 to 7 MB of uncompressed sound files to upload.

Questions:

1) Is there an Xtra to zip the files and then upload them using the FTP protocol or something similar? I want to do this transparently for the user--not by starting an external application to do the zipping and uploading. I know ShockFiler will upload, but it won't zip first.

2) Is there a way to convert wave and/or aiff files to mp3 on the user's machine before uploading them?

3) Once on the server (Linux or Win2K), what would you use to unzip the files and then convert the resulting wave or aiff files to mp3 or Real (so they can be streamed to the teacher who wants to check the homework)?

I know vList includes a zipping function, but I understand that to get the zipped audio files out of vList, a Director application would have to be running on the server...that probably wouldn't be a good option.

Any tips will be appreciated.

Slava

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