Martin's Money Mutterings download help

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MSE_Martin wrote:

Hi folks. The problem is it works perfectly when we try it - frankly we simply don't know why it is going wrong. Both the stream and the download work without any problems from here - if anyone knows why its stopping we'd love to know - there's simply no reason it isn't working - so i don't know why.

I think it's your servers, can't you put the files on to a different server and with another Internet Provider. I use NamesCo http://www.names.co.uk

sra

When I click on the link in the email, it offers to open with the m3ufile (default)
then Windows Media Player says it cannot play it

If I instead save it, I get a file called MMM230305Lo-1 (112 bytes) which none of my players can open

I have also tried opening the link url from inside the media player- no help

sra

This is the windows Media Player error I get:
C00D1197: Cannot play the file

Windows Media Player cannot play the file. You might encounter this error message for one of the following reasons:

• Your computer is not connected to the local area network (LAN) or to the Internet. Connect to the network or Internet, and then try again.
• The path to the file is not valid. If you typed a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the Open URL dialog box, verify that the file name is spelled correctly and that the path to the file is correct, and then try again. If you clicked a link on a Web page, the link might not be valid.
• The server is not available (for example, the server is busy or not online). Try again later.
• Some network protocols in the Player are not enabled. Enable all network protocols, and then try again.
• The proxy server settings for the Player are not configured properly. Verify that your proxy settings are correct, and then try again.

To enable all network protocols

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Network tab.
2. In the Streaming protocols area, select all the protocol check boxes.

To verify your proxy server settings

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Network tab.
2. Verify your settings in the Streaming proxy settings area.

Note

• If you do not know what your proxy server settings should be, on the Network tab, select a protocol, click Configure, and then select Autodetect proxy settings or Use proxy settings of the Web browser (available for HTTP protocol only).

Error ID = 0xC00D1197, Condition ID = 0x00000000




if that's any help

villaneme

Previous weeks: fine
This week: doesn't work

Clip not found:
Real Player message: Real player could not locate the specified clip:
\\Mse1\brendan's share\Public\Sounds\MMM\Final\mmm230305finalhi.mp3

Dan's mp3 file works fine!!

sd8974

MSE_Martin wrote:

Hi folks. The problem is it works perfectly when we try it - frankly we simply don't know why it is going wrong. Both the stream and the download work without any problems from here - if anyone knows why its stopping we'd love to know - there's simply no reason it isn't working - so i don't know why.

Well I've just tried clearing all my cache and starting again. The links in the tip only link to 112KB m3u files, which are obviously not the source files. The links Dan has posted on page 2 of this thread work as they have done previously. Left clicking them to stream them does not work as after a few seconds the stream stops - perhaps the server is just not able to stream the content to users as fast as we would listen to it, so the stream has to stop - although I don't know why it wouldn't simply re-buffer the stream like most servers do.

Interestingly, if I download the clip and then left click Dan's link, it works fine. So my computer must recognise that the file is already on my system and plays that directly, rather than streaming the file from the server. Perhaps this is why the MSE people are not having problems as they already have the mutterings downloaded on their systems? I'm not a computer expert though, so I may be wrong!

sd8974

sd8974 wrote:

Well I've just tried clearing all my cache and starting again. The links in the tip only link to 112KB m3u files, which are obviously not the source files. The links Dan has posted on page 2 of this thread work as they have done previously. Left clicking them to stream them does not work as after a few seconds the stream stops - perhaps the server is just not able to stream the content to users as fast as we would listen to it, so the stream has to stop - although I don't know why it wouldn't simply re-buffer the stream like most servers do.

Interestingly, if I download the clip and then left click Dan's link, it works fine. So my computer must recognise that the file is already on my system and plays that directly, rather than streaming the file from the server. Perhaps this is why the MSE people are not having problems as they already have the mutterings downloaded on their systems? I'm not a computer expert though, so I may be wrong!

Something that backs up what I say in my first paragraph is that if I left click the dialup link, the message starts and I can listen to it for a few seconds before it stops. The broadband link immediately stops as Windows media player has "reached the end of the file". I have a 1 Megabyte connection, so I doubt it's a problem on my end...

mrtickle

in the .m3u file it is tagged as 0 seconds long, with no full URL to the file? . If there is no full URL then surely saving the m3u file and firing it up into winamp/media player/etc won't work...

m3u file format info:
http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html

today's tip contained

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,mmm230305finalhi.mp3
\\Mse1\brendan's share\Public\Sounds\MMM\Final\mmm230305finalhi.mp3

student100

villaneme wrote:

Previous weeks: fine
This week: doesn't work

Clip not found:
Real Player message: Real player could not locate the specified clip:
\\Mse1\brendan's share\Public\Sounds\MMM\Final\mmm230305finalhi.mp3

Dan's mp3 file works fine!!

Aaahhh, I think I have a rough idea of where the problem might lie.

I presume the streaming link is just a small file that is supposed to instruct the server to stream the mp3 file. (the download links Dan provided above work fine...).

However the stream seems to point to the path on your server:
\\Mse1\brendan's share\Public\Sounds\MMM\Final\mmm230305finalhi.mp3

which will be accessible to those inside the MSE office network, but obviously not to the general public.

I think maybe you need to change the streaming file so it points to a full URL rather than the local server path (replace the \\Mse1\... with http://mutterings.moneysavingexpert.com/mmm230305finalhi.mp3, i.e. the link Dan posted).


If that doesn't fix it I don't know what the problem could be

david78

The file.m3u is not correctly.

david78

This is what's in it. This is why it works on Martin's servers. Does anyone
know how to edit this to make it run.



#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,mmm230305finalLo.mp3
\\Mse1\brendan's share\Public\Sounds\MMM\Final\mmm230305finalLo.mp3