A redirect system is provided which is operable to redirect information over a
network 1610. This information is associated with a compressed MP3 audio
file which is initially transmitted through the network from a source 1612
to a user PC 1600. The user PC 1600 will then play the information
and, upon playing the information, embedded information within the audio file will
be detected by an application program 1604. This will cause a browser 1602
to launch and route the embedded information to an intermediate node 1620.
This information will be matched with information in a database 1624, which
information provides routing information to a producer location 1614. This
is transmitted back to the user PC 1600 which will then effect a connection
with the producer 1614 to either view in the simple case a web page and,
in the more complex case, actually transmit information from the database 1624
through the user PC 1600 to the producer 1614 to provide a customized
communication in the form of a customized web page.