All of our files are MP3s, compressed inside ZIP files for bandwidth considerations. To extract the MP3 from the ZIP file, you will need an unzipping utility like WinZip, WinRAR, StuffIt, or any number of compression utilities. Just unzip and there's your MP3. To play the MP3, you'll just need an audio player program like Windows Media Player, WinAmp, MusicMatch, Quicktime, or any other player.

Now, if you want to burn them to CD's, then you'll need a CD burner and a CD burning program like Roxio's Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning Rom, or somesuch. (You may also need an audio editor, or something simple like Quicktime Pro if you are trying to burn an audio CD with files that are longer than 80 minutes, so you can cut them down. Yeah, we know, it's Butler's fault for making ChronoRadio too long.) CD burning is deal for such projects as Always in Motion: Ambush on An'Kerra, which are meant to work from a CD, rather than an MP3 playlist, whenever possible.

Several reasons. Predominantly, it is due to volume and creative issues. The sheer number of fan-made musical parodies, musical remixes, and such make a comprehensive catalog (like what we are attempting with the sections here at Fanworks for audio dramas, radio shows, etc.) would be a practical impossibility. Creatively, it is also difficult to determine the line at which an FMP is really an original product or something "lesser." For instance, one would hardly argue that an original parody like "Max Rebo Band" isn't original, as it certainly is. However, what about projects like "Darth Vader vs. Barney," which is a series of sound clips slapped together without much to call "high-concept" within? There is also a creative issue with credit where it is due. Many fan music parodies, quite wrongly, are attributed to creators other than who actually was behind the project. One need only look at the hundreds of parodies attributed to "Wierd Al" Yankovic that he had nothing to do with to understand the problem there.

Plus, there is the matter of personal preference. The site was formed to promote Fan Audio Productions (FAs), rather than FMPs, which are usually considered two separate genres, in two distinctly different stages of growth. To truly pay due service to the growing FA genre, the FMP genre remains outside of the site's coverage. That could certainly change in the future if it becomes practical and efficient to cover both genres.

Most assuredly . . . not. As I think we've noted in the past, TFN Fan Films is a dedicated site for Fan Film Productions (FFPs). TFN Fan Films has chosen to focus on films, not audio, whereas we have chosen to focus on audio, not films. In a sense, we would more consider TFN Fan Films, FanFix, and our site to basically be unofficial partners in the mission to bring the best of three genres (fan films, written fan fiction, and fan audio) to fans worldwide. They do have ties to a small handful of audio projects (Digital Llama Radio and Digital Llama 2.0 are hosted at TFN Fan Films, as was Stormtrooper Bob until the creative team pulled it in 2003, and TFN currently has the TFN Podcast by Erik Blythe.) Anyone overly concerned about perceived rivalries should note that we actively help promote (and are promoted by) Erik Blythe's TFN Podcast because all of us fan audio folks are out for the good of the genre, not any particular website.

If you mean quick link or page hosting, definitely. If you mean co-hosting or full hosting, you should use the submission guidelines through the link at the bottom of every page to submit your files. While we prefer to page host or host quick links, we do offer file hosting, but we do it on a case-by-case basis.