I’m working with a faculty member on a website/web application supporting undergraduate linguistics classes. The PHP code behind the application is over 10 years old, with various patches over the years, and the audio files were originally stored as .aiff, and delivered via Quicktime streaming. Unfortunately, now that Quicktime is fading from popularity, this professor is worried that her application will become inaccessible to students if she doesn’t update it.

I’m curious, what format and delivery protocol are people using for audio files, when they want to minimize long-term maintenance of the resources? Obviously, she could just do a direct download of .wav files; but I’m wondering if there’s something else out there that I’m not thinking of.

Sincerely,

John A. Lynch, Ph.D. | Academic Technology Manager
UCLA CENTER FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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