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mjr said:
I'll have to take a look at it.
I have a maximum transfer rate of 4GB per month maximum. As the site grows, and I get more hits, I can always upgrade.

Anyway, I was thinking of having some type of "streaming" audio. I do not know for sure. I know I want clips, and I don't want end users to be able to download the entire song. I also want it to be light enough to work over a 56K.

OK in that case, you should consider real player... they actually have a free content encoder (it's just hard to find on their site... sec - going to find you the link now:

Ok the product is called Helix Producer from Real Networks. At the bottom of the page is the "basic" version which will get you started. It's pretty versitle for a basic version.

Now I realize that much of the content streamed on Real sounds like ASS, so here's another solution. Requires a small Flash Movie embeded in the page, but it small as far as code goes, and not at all like a media circus. It's a site I'm building where I put a simple but functional player on the site. It allows the user to start and stop the song at will and can't be "grabbed" http://superlooplibrary.50megs.com - now the way I did it involves the song loading completely before play, but it can be configured to stream from an MP3 (Also the song in the sample was resampled for size - gunna change that too - I need it best quality)

Hey if you like the idea, I can copy and paste the code you'd need into notepad and send it as a .txt. file. It can be embedded anywhere in a html doc and would be a breeze for you to edit the colors,text, links etc... (I usually edit my final Dreamweaver docs in notepad)

Don't forget to check out greenshoe's site... you can hear the whole song clearly (even on 56k - tried it at my buddie's house to show him) and there's really nothing to "capture" and download. This would allow people to here the whole song and not grab it from you. I think he's using a similer technique to mine, but without the play and stop buttons.

- Tanlith -
 
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tanlith said:
Yeah... I what I meant was more bandwidth... not slower. For example: if make a site in Dreamweaver and it totals out at 250k in size, than that's counted against your allowed monthly bandwidth/month. But a good code warrior could probably cut out all the redundant code and comments etc to make the same site at around 175k.

- Tanlith -
Gottcha, We have our own servers so I dont need to worry so much about that. Now on my own stuff I do. I cheat a little and On my links for MP3's It takes you to IUMA. Let them worry about bandwidth-lol.
I do use Nowhere radio for posting purposes in the MP3 clinic here.
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