how can i put music on a website?

what should i do to put music online...i m designing a website for a musician and i must put samples of his work online...i don`t even know what software to use to cut and compress his songs..
thank you for your help!
http://www.claudeduke.com (discography)

To compress the music, I've always liked Easy CD-DA Extractor, but other options are Winamp and Google.

As for putting it on the website, simply put it in a directory, and create links (<a href="insert link here">Song title</a>) to them.

Under no circumstances use any kind of way to have the website make sound... This is illigal and punishable by death

I suggest you ask your friend his online strategy. You mention cutting the songs, so I assume you're referring to just putting a clip up.

Given that this is likely an unknown/indie artist, I would advise putting full songs up.
As a music fan myself, I generally have a better feeling for what the artist is all about when I hear a full song. Perhaps just one full song and clips of the rest of the album?

I recommend ripping at 128kbps... it's not CD-Quality, but it is definately still listenable.

Depending on your skills and knowledge base, it is also common to use some type of Flash application to preview the music, thus not allowing download... again, depends on your friend's online strategy. I still recommend normal DMA-free MP3's

Depending on your operating system, to rip music from a CD, I've used Exact Audio Copy on Windows and iTunes on OS X.

There's likely some open source software somewhere to manipulate (cut/crop) the songs. Your friend, being a musician, may have a few peices of software. I've used Sony Media's SoundForge in the past; it's not freeware. I think CoolEdit may be free now, I'm not sure.

thank you so much for your help!
i ve another question...i ve put my website online yesterday after months of tuff work...It works very well on pc but i ve tried it on an e-book today and it was actually pretty slow ...i just wondered why there`s a difference between mac/pc and how to fix it..
i designed it with flash mx.Is there simply anything to do with the frame speed?(i used 24 images p/s)
thanks for time again!
sincerly
marc josse
my link www.marcjosse.com

Cool, sounds like you did use some type of Flash application to preview the music, thus not allowing download (reference to my above post).

I wouldn't expect too much of a performance difference between operating systems, but keep in mind that the hardware itself may differ.

If your Windows/development machine has 1GB of RAM and some P4 (or Athlon 64) processor, this would likely achieve better performance than Apple's G3 with 256MB of RAM. Also, if the eBook was running more applications at the time... there's a lot of variables you should consider when testing.

Is your flash thing posted somewhere accessible?
Perhaps someone here could test it as well.