Soundbytes on a Website

[Mark@asisoftware.com (Mark Kata)]

I know this is off topic, but I've learned many useful things from my 
fellow loopers.

I'm developing a website for a singer/songwriter and want to include brief 
(30 second) samples of his songs.

I used the internal recorder in my PC while playing his CD on it.  When I 
recorded an excerpt at "CD quality--mono" the file was 1.6MEG.  Then I 
tried recording it at "Radio quality--mono" and the file was 700K.

The 700K version took about 5 minutes to download from the Internet.

What should I do to reduce the size of the file and make downloading 
faster?

Thanks,
Mark Kata
Mark@asisoftware.com