Getting .wav files across a network. Help!

[Room237]

Hi. I'm relatively new to Filemaker. I've been racking my brains on this one:

I've created a database for the thousands of sound effects we have here at our audio facility. Each sound suite needs to be able to preview/download various sound-effect wav files across our LAN.

At the moment, I've installed FMP5.5 on another computer on the network, and it can play the wavs (they are stored as linked objects, with the real files on a firewire drive). But when you right-click and select 'edit linked sound', it opens Windows sound recorder. Not good.

I need to be able to open that wav in a pre-determined programme ie. Cool Edit or Sound Forge etc., or better still, download it to a folder on the user's computer.

I'm sure this can be done. I've downloaded a demo of the Trio File pug-in, but I haven't clue how that works...

Please give me some advice, it would be hugely appreciated!

Thanks.

[dharlow]

What I did in a similar situation where we had a bunch of files with previews in a database was to put all the files on a web server and then store the file name in the database (and the rest of the website address in a global field incase it changed) and had an open URL script that would go to where the file was and download it. This worked quite well as it did not require a special plug-in only a web browser installed on the client machines.

Daniel