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>From: Shawn M Provencal <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: LLTI Digest - 4 Aug 2005 to 5 Aug 2005 (#2005-110)
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>Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 22:38:25 -0400 (EDT)
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>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> from "LLTI
automatic digest system" at Aug 06, 2005 12:01:09 AM
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Hi Barbara,

Have you tried m3u files?  I am streaming playlists using them and it
works on both Mac and PC, with the exception of IE for Mac.  On the PC
the playlists open with Windows Media Player, on the Mac, iTunes.

Open a text editor and in it follow this format:

#EXTM3U
http://www.someserver.edu/path/to/file1.mp3
http://www.someserver.edu/path/to/file2.mp3
http://www.someserver.edu/path/to/file3.mp3
etc...

Save it as somefile.m3u

You don't need to use http://, full paths will work as well, but
that is trickier as the paths are different on Mac and PC, you'd have to make
2 files.

PC:
//servername/path/to/file.mp3

Mac

/Volumes/ServerName/path/to/file.mp3
(assuming the server is mounted)

Also note that SPACES in the filenames will cause all of this not to work.
If you have spaces then replace them with %20

http://www.someserver.edu/path/to/this%20is%20my%file.mp3

There are programs that will create playlits, but I just have students do this.

Good luck,

Shawn

> 
> Greetings LLTIers:
> 
> I am hoping someone out there can help us...we are experimenting with a
> Windows Media Server and textbook audio files (mp3s), trying to get them
> to display as a playlist in Bb6 on both OSX and XP.  
> 
> Rather than chopping up the audio files that textbooks come with into
> little chunks, we are trying to take those files and create playlists
> through a single publishing point. The goal is to  create a link in Bb that
> would display a playlist so that a user can choose the files s/he wants
> to listen to, vs listening to the whole chapter track or hunting and
> pecking....
> 
> Currently, in XP you can click on the link in Bb and it opens
> the Media Player and you can skip through the files using the media
> playerbut there is no a playlist.  On OSX, you cannot skip
> through the files...you have to listen to the whole audio file...and
> there is no playlist.
> 
> We have tried this using a .wsx list and .asx too. Same results as above
> for either.
> 
> If this makes no sense to anyone, that would be because I am losing all
> hope of coherent thought due to this conundrum.
> 
> If you are coming to Provo for FLEAT I would be thrilled to talk with
> you there, but in the meantime if people can contact me off list that
> would be terrific.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Barbara
> 
> Barbara Sawhill
> Director
> Cooper International Learning Center
> Oberlin College
> Oberlin OH 44074
> 

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