Hi,
What program do you use to upload your music to the web for streaming?
Thanks.
hc.
Web audio streaming?
Depends on if you mean streaming from an uploaded file or streaming from a live broadcast. For an uploaded file, at the very simplest you upload the file (file.mp3 etc) to your webserver and link to that file. The problem with this is that web browsers are created to download content entirely before playing them back.
Certain media players might override this behaviour if installed & configured correctly, but the preferred solution is to use a small text file saved with the proper extension, which is commonly known as a PLAYLIST. For mp3 typical playlist extensions are m3u & pls (file.m3u & file.pls).
The playlist file structure is typically very basic and the easiest way to create one is to use your chosen media player (try winamp for mp3's etc) to create a playlist with a local copy of the file, and then edit the resulting playlist to point at the 'uploaded' file instead. The safest approach is to hardcode the path to your file (ie, http://www.myserver.com/audio/file.mp3). A similar approach works for Win Media Player, iTunes etc, but in the case of iTunes you'll have to edit xml and for media player deal with its more basic structure markup.
Certain media players might override this behaviour if installed & configured correctly, but the preferred solution is to use a small text file saved with the proper extension, which is commonly known as a PLAYLIST. For mp3 typical playlist extensions are m3u & pls (file.m3u & file.pls).
The playlist file structure is typically very basic and the easiest way to create one is to use your chosen media player (try winamp for mp3's etc) to create a playlist with a local copy of the file, and then edit the resulting playlist to point at the 'uploaded' file instead. The safest approach is to hardcode the path to your file (ie, http://www.myserver.com/audio/file.mp3). A similar approach works for Win Media Player, iTunes etc, but in the case of iTunes you'll have to edit xml and for media player deal with its more basic structure markup.
