For bandwidth, copyright, and security reasons, FAWM.ORG does not host the actual audio files of your FAWM demos on this server. However, our streaming player and jukebox can still play them from the site if you provide a URL of a demo hosted elsewhere. This page provides describes several demo-hosting options.
NOTE: To be playable through the FAWM streaming player, the demo must be in MP3 format, at 44.1kHz sample rate. (Other sample rates will work, but might sound unusually sped up or slowed down). Also avoid using variable bit rate (VBR) encoding. VBR encoded MP3s do not seem to stream properly.
If you have your own website, simply upload an MP3 file to your site and paste its URL in the “Demo URL” field of the songs page.
Other Sites that have been used for MP3 Hosting
Be careful. The Google Sites web server seems to be case sensitive. If your URL is something like: 'sites.google.com/site/fawmer/MySong.mp3' , enter it exactly. The URL: 'sites.google.com/site/fawmer/mysong.mp3' will probably result in a broken link.
FAWM is offering a file hosting service to those who donate $25 or more. This service allows a user to upload MP3 files to an affiliated server. Only MP3 files are currently supported and files can not be larger than 10 Megabytes, but there is no current limit on the number of files that a user can upload. Users MUST have the copyright to any files they upload.
Users of the service will still have to paste in the URL path to their uploaded demo.
The service also has a display page that will allow others to view a user's directory of MP3 files, including any ID3 information included in the file such as Title or Author.
The current system is set to keep files for 6 months, after which they will be moved to an Archive folder. Files in the Archive will be available indefinitely, though they can be removed upon the user's request.
More info: https://donate.fawm.org
If you make a video of your song and post it to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, or MySpace TV, simply copy and paste the URL of the video's web page into the “Demo URL” field of the FAWM song form. It will automatically show up on the FAWM song page.
Some fawmers use their MySpace, Soundclick, PureVolume, Dmusic, AcidPlanet, or Bandcamp profiles to host demos, or prefer to link to some other page (e.g., blog) rather than letting MP3s be streamable from the site. You may enter any URL you like on the song form, and a link will appear (instead of the FAWM music player) on the song page, pointing people to that web address.