Hey, I've been told these forums are a great place to ask for tips and advice for web design, etc... I hope this counts as web design...

I just found out my web hosting plan supports audio streaming. I have MP3s that if you tell WMP, WinAMP, etc. to "Open URL" it'll then stream the audio.

Is there some sort of code, that can make the default media player do this instead of having the web browser download it? I don't wish to make .rm or .ram files.... Or, is it necessary for the user to do this by hand, copy and paste style?

Thanks a bunch!

Hey Max! I wanted to welcome you to GIDForums!
Like I said earlier, I have no clue how to do this, but hopefully someone here will!

[EDIT]I just found something that might of interest: http://www.realnetworks.com/resource...ttpstream.html[/EDIT]

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Actually thanks for that link, it linked me to one page that linked me to another, to another, etc... Somehow I came up with the idea for making a playlist that has a web stream in it. WMP, which comes with every Windows OS, as well as QuickTime, Real, and WinAMP, plus others, support the M3U playlist format. Just make one of those and upload, voila! Don't use PLS, as WMP doesn't support that and we all know Windows is the biggest OS around and WMP is default for media player...

Thanks again!

Flattery will get you everywhere!

OK, I don't know how relevant this is but I wrote an article over 3 years ago (you can tell by just looking at the page ) but it's about streaming video : http://www.desilva.biz/webdsn/vidstream.html!

FYI, I haven't launched my own WMP in what feels like, over 2 years... so I wouldn't even know where to start if I want to research this. Though I think MSDN would be a good place to dig if you're targetting WMP users.

If however, you already found the answer, please share it with us... and welcome to GIDForums™

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Actually I did get it to work:

Open Notepad (or text editor):

Copy and paste this:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:0,file.mp3
http://www.domain.com/file.mp3


Change domain.com to your domain and file.mp3 to your file. Save as file.m3u and upload to your server. Streams nicely with 56K and Broadband if using WMP, Real, or QT, but WinAMP seems to lag massively over 56K, probably due to the fact it doesn't cache the file.

Nice find Max. Where did you figure that out at?

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I'm not sure, I just went back to the link you gave and wasn't able to figure it out again.... But, I found a site that did a similar thing, however, they had it for different speed connections. However, they were doing it through a "live" stream, which requires that. With HTTP streaming and a media player with caching it seems to work fine....

Just wanted to add some more info. and to revise the code a bit...

To add multiple files to your streaming playlist....

#EXTM3U
http://www.domain.com/file.mp3
http://www.domain.com/file2.mp3
http://www.domain.com/file3.mp3

You get the idea, also the second line that I gave above is never needed...

Kinda off-topic, but not really...

I'm a violinist and I host recordings of myself on my website, that's why I needed the streaming MP3s...

Well here's my latest recording, just finished performing it 3 hours ago at Penn State's Violin Studio Recital. I do believe it's one of my best recordings yet.

http://www.sverdlove.com/audio/max/kreisler-sicilienne-rigaudon-2-2-2004.m3u

Enjoy!