Setting Up A Site With Audio Streaming

[nayner]

hello

 

me and my friends plan to setup a site where we can post audio files of our lectures on various topics regularly.

 

we want the audio files to be streamed in a popup player upon clicking on the given link, so that the audio file is not downloadable and we can put some ads within the popup player window to get back some of the bandwidth costs.

 

totalchoicehosting is our first priority as we could not find any other host with more flexible and inexpensive hosting plans.

ive been searching online to find a ready-made server side software to do our job but could not find much info about this. i thought why not ask the question here itself.

 

any information or links to information will be really appreciated. we are looking for a solution which does not need a dedicated server.

 

thank you

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, nayner.

 

Sorry, I don´t have links or knowledge on how to do this, but hold on, there is always someone who knows.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums nayner

 

While you can serve audio files from your webspace be aware that they will eat a lot of bandwidth. As such you cannot run anything server side on a virtual account so you are limited to normal http type requests to serve your files.

[TCH-Rob]

Hey nayner, welcome to the forums. I think Bruce covered it.

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums! As Bruce said, I'd be concerned more with bandwidth usage with these types of files.

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, nayner!

[Mitch]

Nayer, you might look at podcasting as an alternative solution to streaming the audio content. Just in case you need some information on the topic, the folks at Wikipedia are one of the best resources on the subject.

 

Wikipedia - Podcasting

[nayner]

Welcome to the forums nayner

 

While you can serve audio files from your webspace be aware that they will eat a lot of bandwidth. As such you cannot run anything server side on a virtual account so you are limited to normal http type requests to serve your files.

 

hello bruce

 

ya i am aware of the bandwidth that wud be taken up..we have calculated that. a shared account would do for us as of now.

 

any info on http audio streaming with the functionality mentioned above in my post?

 

thank u all for taking time.

Mitch, thank u for the info on podcasting.but we are looking for something different.

[TCH-Bruce]

All I know to do is use http links to serve the files or using EMBED html commands.

[Steve Verdino]

Hi Nayner,

 

I've found this script recently that does a good job.

http://www.gmtt.co.uk/details.php?file=11

 

However, this script basically creates a playlist so someone -Could- figure out how to download the music files.

 

HTH

[nayner]

hey thank you steve, il check that out and others. will post related interesting info here if i find any