Technical Tips for Audio
This page is just a running list of notes. Please contact me if you’re having some sort of problem you think I can help with: bjshengr *at* gmail *dot* com
The sound files don’t work in any readers that I know of. Don’t be a lazy bum: click over to the website!
They seem to work for most people most of the time, but even for me they hiccup sometimes. Here are some observations:
Typical behavior should be
- Click on the arrow to play the file (click again for IE)
- Watch the file load (green line snaking over to the right)
- File starts playing automatically
- You can drag the positioner back and forth to hear what you want
TROUBLESHOOTING
- ERROR message, something like “file not found”. This probably indicates I’ve screwed something up. Send me an email and I’ll see what I can do
- File LOADS but never starts playing, i.e. you see the green line but it just won’t start. This happens to me occasionally in Firefox. I can almost always just close the browser and open it back up again and everything will be fine.
- Chipmunk voices. I probably screwed up the bit rate. Send me an email :^)
- Bad sound quality. Sorry, that’s par for the course. I’m dealing with cheap, portable equip (i.e. my cell phone most of the time)
Technology requirements
- The player uses adobe flash, so you might have to install it — but most people have it already. Here’s the install site
- They work better in Firefox than IE. I haven’t tested them in Safari. Internet Explorer requires you to click once to activate the control, then click again on the play arrow
