Lang,
I had a look at your Common Loon. Beautiful photo which loaded instantly.
The sound took a further 5 minutes to download on my iMac with slow rural
phone connection, but great sound when I got to hear it. A pop-up window
arrived just as the last bit of sound downloaded. It said something like
"upgrade to the latest Quicktime version". I'm already running Quicktime of
course, so I thought I might as well upgrade. A mistake!! The download for
this took one hour and fifteen minutes for a whopping 10 MB file. There was
no warning the upgrade file would be this big. So maybe a warning for PC
users who have slow connections, that Quicktime might take some time to
download the full version.
Vicki Powys
Australia
on pedal-powered computer
and tin-can telephone connection
on 13/3/04 8:08 AM, Lang Elliott at wrote:
> Lang again.
>
> Now I have a favor to ask of the group.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how best to present sounds on my web site when I
> re-construct it next winter. I've been thinking about using quicktime
> delivery, even though most folks use PCs and many may not have quicktime
> installed.
>
> Anyway, would all those currently listening go to the following address and
> then click on the link for the sound of the Common Loon? All those with
> quicktime should see the sound load in a small window and it should play
> automatically. All those without quicktime should get a prompt telling them
> to download quicktime and pointing to where they can find the download.
>
> Let me know what happens. I'm hoping this will work flawlessly for all those
> who have quicktime installed. I would also be interested in learning how
> many of our group have quicktime, versus how many don't.
>
> Here's the link:
>
> http://www.naturesound.com/java/java3.html
>
>
> Lang
>
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