Pointers into audio files (howto?)

[Ian Malone]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have an audio recording and a transcription of an interview, which I
> would like to post to the web.  Each line (or short section) of the
> transcript should link to the appropriate place in the audio, so that
> clicking on "[audio]" next to a line saying (say):
>         [audio] JR: When did you first start to use Linux?
>         	XX: In about 1997.
> would start the audio playing in the appropriate place.
> 
> For portability and size, the best format for the audio file would seem
> to be mp3, but other formats, say ogg, might be acceptable.  Clearly,
> this could be done with a large (**very large**) number of mp3 files,
> linked and accessed via pointers from the text.  But...
> 
> Is there a better way?  I.e. does mp3 or ogg support anything like
> anchors, so that the text file could reference these "anchors" in the
> audio file?
> 

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