March 3, 2009

First Attempt at Putting Sermons Online

If you click on the link below it should allow you to hear a sermon. When I asked it to open, it took a minute, then starting playing in itunes. See how it works for you and let me know.

This sermon was done several months ago.
Prodigal Son.m4a

3 comments:

  1. I can download it and play it, but you probably want to use a more common format, such as .mp3 or .wav (though wav has no compression so your files would be huge). I happen to use VLC as my media player which can play almost anything, but I tried opening it in Windows Media Player and it couldn't figure out what to do. And as far as iTunes goes, while a lot of people do have it, you probably don't want to require people to download and install a new program just to hear these. That unnecessarily raises barriers. (Also, iTunes is pretty intrusive and I actively avoid installing it on my machine.)

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  2. Okay, I can't bandy about terms like "VLC" and "compression" like my hero JStins, but this is what happened for me:

    *Using IE7, it opened fine (using QuickTime, I think) within the box.net site.

    *No luck when I was browsing with Firefox (3.0.6); it prompted me to browse to find a program with which to open the file, and Windows Media Player was a bust.

    *However you podcast your sermons, I'm just happy I don't have to carry them to my parents in Virginia on a flash drive anymore!

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  3. Just don't embarrass me!!! I was able to hear this sermon without any problems--you know how good I am with computers. Thanks,I enjoyed it.

    Mom

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