RE: FLASH: Is 21,433K for a wav to big?

[Lee Hunter]

> This news station has the greatest music custom designed that would be

> perfect for background music that's not so repetitous.  The raw wave size

> is 21,433K and I don't want to shorten it if I can get out that.

> How can I

> make this work?


Just a few random musings - are you really really sure you want to have

background music on your news station site? What exactly do you mean by

background music? Is it 'music to browse the news by'? If that's the case

then you should know that most people are not too keen on unsolicited

background music. People who want to hear music will already have their

favorite CD or radio station playing in the background.


And even if they like the music once you have ask yourself if it will stand

up on repeat visits. So even if you decide to use bg music you might want to

provide a kill switch if its longer than 15-20 secs.


Its a different thing when you're talking about music that's tightly

integrated with an animation. But a 25 MB wav (or 3-4 mb mp3) file still

seems like overkill.


Regards


Lee

www.hum.com




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