HTML Question... streaming music

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I'm building a site and have audio that I want to stream. Thanks to Quicktime, my browser downloads the whole file before playing. It also stores a copy of the whole song on the hard disk.

Is there a more secure way to stream .mp3 format?

Follow the links at my site and tell me if you have any problems streaming the audio.

My Site
 
You will need to use some sort of ActiveX control or Flash player, like most other sites do...

You could use the Windows Media Player control, which will be embedded right on the webpage, or you could search around for a free Flash player.

Here's a tutorial that explains how to do it...

http://www.mioplanet.com/rsc/embed_mediaplayer.htm

Edit: I went to your site and it didn't stream anything, just asked me to download/open the .mp3 file.
 
You just need to make an .m3u file with the URL of each track in the playlist and it will stream
 
Get a newer version of QuickTime. Current versions of QuickTime (since at least the late 1990s) autoplay as soon as enough of the file is loaded that the computer thinks it can probably make it to the end. If your connection is too slow for the file size, you'll either have to reduce the file size of wait for a very long time.

Bottom line: if it doesn't start playing until the file is almost completely downloaded, that usually means that the file is way too large for the bandwidth.

Oh, and if you use a QuickTime movie file to wrap the file format in question, you can specify multiple versions of the file to pull, depending on the bandwidth of the client.
 
What's all this stuff telling the poor guy to play the file with newer versions of Quicktime, or Flash, or whatever? His issue is on the server end. You can't control what player your visitors are going to use...

Just follow altitude909's advice. More detail can be found here or on a thousand other places...
 
.m3u was the answer I was looking for.

I made all the changes and the files stream as desired.

Thanks for the tips.
 
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