Audio Sermons Help

If you encounter problems with playing the audio sermons, perhaps the following troubleshooting tips may help you identify and correct the problem.

I Have A High Speed Connection But The Sound Does Not Begin Right Away

This is normal. Because the audio clip will usually play faster than it can be downloaded, your media player calculates how much of the file it needs to download first before it begins to play, so that the audio clip can be played in its entirety without having to stop and wait for more to be downloaded.

Playback Does Not Work Well (Or At All) On My Dialup Phone Line Connection

If your computer can play mp3 sound files located on compact disks and you are a member or are or were an attender at Calvary, contact the church office to see if the sermons you are interested in are available on CD. Contact information appears at the bottom of this page.

Incomplete Playback

If the audio clip plays for a while and then either starts to break up or quits entirely, then your media player probably has not correctly calculated how much of it to download before it begins playing. A cure for this is to first right-click on the audio clip and "Save Target As.." and select "Desktop" (or another location of your choice; just remember where you put it) to first download it in its entirety to your computer. Then after the download has completed, click on the downloaded file to play it. Be aware that a sermon clip is a large file, so the download time can range from about 5 minutes on a broadband cable connection to an hour or more on a dialup connection. Don't forget to right-click and delete it afterward, as each file is somewhere around 12 megabytes in size.

Audio Clip Does Not Play At All

Your media player may be an older one that does not play MP3 files. We suggest you try installing a newer one.