I was putting together a website with some music examples. mp3 files
are fine but they seem to open in 'quick time' audio, replacing the
browser page with a new page. They also have a short glitch in the
beginning of the music piece.

I found that .m4a (acc) files seem to open with a seperate 'real
audio' player, without losing the main page. The files also seem to be
a little smaller.

Anyone have experience or opinions on the best files to use to
represent music on website. What is the 'standard'.

Also winamp has a free player that will 'rip' CDs to m4a files .....
(look in preferences for m4a and destination)
.....http://www.winamp.com/player/

J West

I was putting together a website with some music examples. mp3 files
are fine but they seem to open in 'quick time' audio, replacing the
browser page with a new page. They also have a short glitch in the
beginning of the music piece.

I found that .m4a (acc) files seem to open with a seperate 'real
audio' player, without losing the main page. The files also seem to be
a little smaller.

Anyone have experience or opinions on the best files to use to
represent music on website. What is the 'standard'.

You can configure the webpage to play mp3's in quicktime without a new
window. Ask a web developer how (I don't know myself).

There are lots of MP4 variants like ogg, wma, acc, etc, 6 of one, half-dozen
of the other. WMA probably offers the widest user support.

I was putting together a website with some music examples. mp3 files
are fine but they seem to open in 'quick time' audio, replacing the
browser page with a new page. They also have a short glitch in the
beginning of the music piece.

I found that .m4a (acc) files seem to open with a seperate 'real
audio' player, without losing the main page. The files also seem to be
a little smaller.

Anyone have experience or opinions on the best files to use to
represent music on website. What is the 'standard'.

You can configure the webpage to play mp3's in quicktime without a new
window. Ask a web developer how (I don't know myself).

There are lots of MP4 variants like ogg, wma, acc, etc, 6 of one, half-dozen
of the other. WMA probably offers the widest user support.