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Playing music:
This site's audio files are .mp3 format
which is supported by a
wide range of music players - Windows
Media Player, Winamp, iTunes and
QuickTime, to name a
few. When you ask your browser to
play music, it probably will start a player
application which displays
a separate player window on your screen.
You can drag the player window smaller and/or drag out of
the way if you wish to continue browsing
different site pages, or even do work in
an entirely different application while
listening. The player window has
buttons to stop, pause/continue, etc. and
is the way you control play after the
very first click to start.
Audio on this site is
set to download the music from the
server to your computer if it has not
been previously downloaded. This
mode has been used for a long time and
is familiar to most users. The
download does mean a delay before you
start to hear music, but with fast
internet access and clips of a few
minutes, the delay is not long. A
dialup connection will be a longer
delay. A previously downloaded
clip will start playing right away.
Purging browser cached or temporary
files will delete downloaded music, so
it must be reloaded next time you play.
Our aim is for audio play on this site
to work in the same familiar way you
already have set up on your computer.
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