Friday, July 22, 2011

Yahoo's Site Solution - Audio Files!

So, I'm getting used to Yahoo's Site Solution. It does have some nice features, but the restrictions can be annoying. It keeps switching back to the default font - Times New Roman. The page layout keeps changing on me. Lots of clicks.

The organization whose site I maintain has a bunch of audio files they want online. I thought it would be easy to just pop them onto Site Solution. There's a page template just for audio. Great! They have to be .mp3s, and mine are .wavs. Off I went to find a file converter. At CNET, I chose Switch File Converter. Free to try, $19.99 to buy, and it had 4.5 stars from CNET's editors. It worked like a charm. The three wav files were mp3s in no time. Back to Site Solution to put them on the Audio File Gallery page. I don't remember seeing anything about a 10MB size limit, but that's what it is, and mine are each at least 25MB.
Bummer. Back to the drawing board.

And before I forget, here's Yahoo's website hosting help number: 800-318-0783

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