embedded sound file question

[thrillseekre]

ok<br />i'm working on my personal site<br />i have this obe mp3 i want to include upong this one page when it loads<br />it is 11mb as an mp3 though<br />should i convert it to aiff?<br />or some other sound file type?<br />which sound file types are best for pages and why?<br />i'm thinking i should use a more universay sound file type like .au or something, right?<br />yet at the same time, i have to consider compression due to the size of this file.<br /><br />please hook me up<br />thanks

[thrillseekre]

i mean, ideally for size, i would go for real audio.<br />yet, not sooo many people do not have real player.<br />at the same time it would be like the size of a large jpeg or 2

[SexySites]

hmmmm a 11mb mp3 file? gonna be pretty big in a wav/aiff format! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" /> <br /><br />laters,<br />Chris

[arthurdent]

11mb mp3 file <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> WTF is this?<br />Concert version of Child in Time <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="rolleyes.gif" /> , or Speed King?<br />For wtf you need this <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" /> <br /><br />peace

[thrillseekre]

prolly b/c of it's bitrate<br />actually, it's Robert Fripp<br />he does ambient stuff....oftentimes teams up with other ambeint artists or Aphex Twin or Autechre <br /><br />i suppose i could find in a lesser bitrate, but i think the size is from the length of the track<br /><br />any suggestions?

[thrillseekre]

yeah<br />i checked<br />the track is like 8 minutes long<br />you figure twice as long as a typicsl pop/rock song, thus twice the size of one going at a 128 bitrate

[toker]

Keep in mind a modem user will take about 15-20 mins per MB. DSL still a few mins even at such a big size. <br /><br />WAV or other media would be about 110MB if you convert it so thats not much better. What i would reccomend is to cut out a portion maybe 30 secs worth and use that in a loop.

[druhix]

you should just not add any sound to your web page<br />that kind of shit only looks good on a mickey mouse site