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Merylmccay;

Good morning… On your first issue, if you are uploading the sermon from the enter new sermon page itself, it could take up to 5 minutes or even more, and here is why. 1) The mp3 file(s) that you are uploading can be quite large in size depending on the length of the sermon and how it was recorded. 2) Upload files for any situation when related to the Internet is always slower. Internet providers make there download speeds very fast because that is what people do most of the time on the Internet, download, not upload. Bandwidth is expensive to operate as well as taxing the servers and networks switches, they upload speeds are about 1/4 (give or take) of what your download speed is. 3) Depending on what you are using for bandwidth at home anywhere from dial-up over a phone line, to DSL, to wireless, to hooked into a cable modem can determine your overall speeds as well. So you will just have to be a little patient :o)

One thing you can do to help, it is use a free ftp program like Filezilla (check with your provider and most tell you how to setup it up to access your account on their servers) and upload all your sermons at once to the folder in wordpress (if you followed the default directions, should be /wp-content/uploads/sermons, if it is different, you will have to find out where you have been uploading them). What this will do is allow you to upload files in bulk. Once this is done, you will notice under the sermons interface menu a link that says files, and all those files you just uploaded will show as unlinked files, and that is okay. Now go to you new sermon page, fill in the details and then at the bottom, choose existing file and then in the next drop down box chose the file you just uploaded with your ftp program. Does this make sense?

As far as your file getting the service times and such, it may be due to the id3 tags on the mp3 file itself. Check with the person who creates the mp3 and they would be able to tell you. Sorry for so much information and I hope some it helps. Please keep as posted :o)

Blessings…

Shawn