Re: .mp3's download as text?

Hey Folks,

If the problem was file length or case sensitivity, I don't think they
would've uploaded in the first place. Some non-FTP sites will upload
filenames with caps and spaces that cause problems later on, though.

The mp3 extension could be the culprit...in which case you've already solved
it.

I know that, if my FTP program is set for text, rather than binary or raw
data, my music files upload as text. This will sometimes happen even when
I'm sure I've set the program for binary.

Another guess: (and this is all pure speculation on my part)

Do you need to move the files from your temp folder to a secondary or
default one before accessing them? I think this is the case with audiogalaxy
and some of the other new music sites.

In any event, good luck to you both. It'll be interesting to see what we can
do with this technology in the long run.

Hope this helps.

Luck,

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: Alessandro Brunelli <abru(at)dplanet.ch>
To: Ronald Schilling <rons(at)dmv.com>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: .mp3's download as text?


> on 12.1.2000 0:37, Ronald Schilling at rons(at)dmv.com wrote:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I have a strange problem that maybe someone can help me with. I am
> > working on a site for someone which has  three .mp3 files as part of the
> > site. I have uploaded the whole site to a temporary directory within my
> > site and everything works fine except the .mp3 files. In IE5 they work
> > fine but in Netscape 4.7 they just download as some kind of text files.
> > No dialog box comes up to prompt me to save to disk or anything.
> >
> > I used Music Match Jukebox 4 to encode the .mp3's off of a CD
> > (everything is legal) and placed them on the site. Has anyone else used
> > this product to encode files for the net?
> >
> > If anyone has a good guess why this isn't working I'd love to hear from
> > you. Other .mp3 files work in Netscape but not these. Sorry if this
> > isn't the proper forum for this posting -- private replies gladly
> > accepted.
> >
> > Ron
> > (Using Windows95 on an "old" Cyrix P166)
> >
> > --
> > http://home.dmv.com/~rons/Ron%27s_Pages/Ron.htm ( %27 = apostrophe )
> > http://home.dmv.com/~rons/index.htm
> >
> >
> Does the Netscape mp3 download retain the .mp3 suffix? If not, probably
you
> only need to rewrite it on your downloaded file. I don't know why this
> happens but I had the same problem with some mp3 files I downloaded on my
> Mac with Microsoft Internet Explorer. At first they wouldn't go, then I
> noticed the name was scrambled and had no .mp3 suffix. When I corrected
it,
> it all went ok. Is the length of the name the culprit? Maybe, someone else
> could give us the full answer.
>
> Nice question.
>
> Alessandro
>
>

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