Streaming Audio Support?

[Singer]

What support do you have for streaming audio? I would like to put up some files (self-created and permission obtained!).

[boxturt]

I have both (original) streaming mp3 and Real Player files on my site so I know that at least those are supported. Knowing how well rounded and plentiful the features are here I'm sure many formats are supported

[Singer]

Good to hear! What do I need to enable the streaming capability? For instance, the other day, I used Real Audio's Helix Producer Basic 9 to create a multi-speed streaming file, but I don't know what I need to do in my web pages to let it stream for the user. After I uploaded the file, I tried to access it (simple <a>... </a> reference) and it started downloading, which I guess isn't too surprising.

[boxturt]

Type the following as plain text (don't click on this):

http://209.51.142.186/~YourDomain(eg:~boxt...rt)/YourFile.rm and save it as a .ram file and code your link to point to that .ram file.

 

I think there are a couple ways to do this as Real Media has a couple different extensions depending on audio or visual but hopefully this points you in the right direction

[Singer]

Hmmm...I may be missing something, Boxturt. I set up a page with links using the following without success, getting a 404 error (the file is at the root of the public_hml directory):

 

http://209.51.142.186/~csochoir/test.rm

http://209.51.142.186/~csochoir/public_html/test.rm

 

Any thoughts?

 

P.S. I like your music! I took a trip out to your site and listened to some of it.

[boxturt]

Thank you very much

 

And I owe you an apology, i told you sort of backwards - try this: Set up the .ram file as I instructed. Be sure it is the ONLY line in the file and that you save it as .ram.

http://209.51.142.186/~csochoir/YourActualSoundFile.rm

and make your link -

<a href="http://209.51.142.186/~csochoir/LinkRamFile.ram">My Song</a>

 

This line should point to the .ram file you just made and that file should open up the actual media file.

 

I hope I got it right that time, been a while since I've had to do this. Choir is it? Can't wait to hear! (I'm on my way to choir rehearsal now as a matter of fact)