I have a puzzle in trying to add a sound file to my website.

I have produced an MP3 version of an audio-tape and I have an extract (146kb) filed on the (duplicate) website on my home computer, which plays on clicking the image link, via RealPlayer.  However, when I uploaded the new file to the host website I can get no noise response; a page appears with the message "Clip info (No information available); It suggests to me that I may have to include clips or links to plugs to make the sound operative:so far I have not found the answer.

Has anyone a suggestion, please?

Tom.

Later the same afternoon.  I should of course have done more research before I entered this request for help. Rather than delete it, someone else may be glad of my own answer, even though it is not yet fully complete. In one of the internet pages I sought guidance from, I came across an in-passing comment that many hosts banned mp3 files because of the way they could misuse copyright. I have queried my own host to see whether they have that policy, and am waiting for a reply. In the meantime I have been trying out the possibility for myself. Changing mp3 to wav format allows the website to play the sound: not as elegantly, unfortunately, because it throws up a page blank except for the display of the status of the player. On the home duplicate site, on the other hand, I am only allowed to hear the sound when I click through the options of the security restriction that my computer is imposing.  I have no doubt I can find a control option to get round that, though it isn`t much of a bother. I may try other formats to see what happens with AIFF or Ogg Vorbis; but I shall wait more patiently now for my host answer, knowing that at least I have uncovered the cause of the original problem. So no need for replies here.  Incidentally, in case anyone is still reading, another difficulty I solved in a similarly accidental way when I was trying to play a CD of this same origin on my CD player was that the CD player would not accept RWs - which I was using because it was all experimental and I was too mean to use a non-rewritable one to start with.

Tom.