Need help with MP3s.

I am webmaster for a band. I want to put audio clips on our site in both
RealAudio and MP3 formats.

I have no problem with the RealAudio; done it before.

With MP3, a problem.

I created the files in iTunes (I'm a Mac user). I uploaded them, and the links
are just like this:

SongName.mp3

So here's what happens. When I click on the link for the MP3, it opens in
another browser window and plays in a little Quicktime interface, but the sound
is garbled.

If I download the file to my computer, it opens and plays in iTunes, and
sounds fine.

What did I do wrong?

I am webmaster for a band. I want to put audio clips on our site in both
RealAudio and MP3 formats.

Since MP3 is pretty much ubiquitous on any computer/media player, I'm not
sure if you really need to bother with the RealAudio version. That said,
choices for users is good.

So here's what happens. When I click on the link for the MP3, it opens in
another browser window and plays in a little Quicktime interface, but the
sound
is garbled.

Sounds like a bad MP3 or a non-MP3 file. Did you compress these as MP3s or
as AAC files? I think, by default, iTunes compresses as AAC files, which
will ONLY play within iTunes.

-Darrel

They are definitely MP3s, and they play just fine when downloaded. One thing I
have learned since my post is that I should do "stub" files with the extension
..m3u. That way the file will always download and play in an MP3 player instead
of in the browser. Right?

By the way, I thought about losing the RA files, but decided to leave them for
dial-up people. (And until I solve my problem, they're the only ones that
work!)

They are definitely MP3s, and they play just fine when downloaded. One
thing I
have learned since my post is that I should do "stub" files with the
extension
.m3u. That way the file will always download and play in an MP3 player
instead
of in the browser. Right?

An M3u file that tells the player where to find the file and stream it. So,
yes, by default, it will open a player. You can't just change the extension
of the MP3 to M3U, though. An M3U file is actually a text file with playlist
information:

http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html

However, the fact that your music is garbled inside the browser (I assume
which is using the QT plug-in to play it) makes me wonder if your MP3 is
corrupted and/or not actually an MP3. But if you are sure you made an MP3
file and not an AAC MP4, then I'm not sure what it could be.

-Darrel