Silly Technical Question About Posting mp3s

You have to have it hosted somewhere on the web already if you want other people to be able to hear it; then you should just be able to post the URL for it, and it will linkify it, so long as there's an HTTP:// at the beginning.

Hey Jazzbo.

Presumably you mean linking to an mp3? You need to have it uploaded to some webspace somewhere, as Sean C says. Which means that for all intents and purposes, your hard-drive won't work. Once you've uploaded it somehwere, you can link to it with the following html code:

<a href="http://url.com/filename.mp3">linked text</a>

On ILM, you can also just type in the URL (see Sean C's post).

You'll have to upload the file somewhere on the internet, as no one on the outside will have access to your hard drive.

Once you upload your file somewhere, copy the URL (something like "http://www.location.com/myfile.mp3"), and link to it from here using HTML tags for links. It would looks something like [A HREF="http://www.location.com/myfile.mp3"]file name[/A], but instead of those brackets you have to use the greater than/less characters for your opening and closing tags.

major x-post, so basically there you go

Bear in mind though that MP3s are big bandwidth eaters and if you want to link directly to something on a site not your own you really really should get the site owner's permission first.

Thank you, kind sirs and/or madams. I wasn't sure about the etiquette, due to the bandwidth issue. Several people here have turned me on to some great music by posting mp3s, so I was just curious.

Posting a link to a site which hosts MP3s is fine I think unless it's specifically some private thing - but linking direct to the MP3s isn't good cos it's harder to detect until the whopping huge bandwidth shows up.