[Dixielandjazz] Program Help (Music content) "Web Site Blues"

[Scott Anthony]

I have been in the process of making all the CDs that the San Francisco 
Traditional Jazz Foundation has produced available for listening (NOT 
downloading) on www.sftradjazz.org for members (only). I've been using a 
freely available Flash player that is placed on the website with the MP3 
files. The only drawback is that it uses a playlist that needs to be in a 
specific format unless you want to only have one tune for each instance of 
the Flash player. To prevent downloading the MP3s, you can use your website 
control panel to prevent "hotlinking" various types of files, like MP3s.

I can send a sample playlist and a sample of HTML code that uses the Flash 
player off-list to anyone who would like it.

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <alevy at alevy.com>
To: <santh at comcast.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Program Help (Music content) "Web Site Blues"


>I hate to repeat all of this but since I started this I'll 'splain.
> Andy wrote that
> Beth wrote on 17/02/2010 19:26:32:
> I'm not sure what you mean. On my websites I just link to the mp3 file and 
> when you click on the link, it opens the song in the browser's player, 
> which for me is quicktime.
> =====================================
> Me:(AL)
> End user can use one or more of many programs as a plugin.
> Quicktime, Real Player, Windows Media, Flash etc
> Some site you can click to play, no obvious time delay
> media starts playing whether video or audio.
> Other sites you see a "download bar".
> In most cases the file is saved on YOUR hard drive in a temporary file.
> Streaming I suppose is more like a radio signal. You hear the music
> but it is not stored on your hard drive. (That's a guess.)
> My "problem" was to control MY WEB SITE and I came up with a
> band aid for now. (that's a joke son). I have to learn more programming
> before I can give a complete answer.
> ============================================ next snip
> What happens when you go to:
> http://www.stlouisstompers.com/Recordings.html
> and click on one of the underlined songs?
> What happens depends, but ultimately I think for all browsers
> you have to wait for the whole mp3 file to download before
> a player opens and plays the music.
> I'm guessing this is what Al is trying to avoid.
> Some sites use what is called streaming. This will start
> playing the audio when enough has been "buffered" and carry on
> downloading in the background.
> I've never set this up, so don't have first hand experience,
> but this web site seems to give a pretty good tutorial of
> one way of doing it
> =========== Me again. I will definitely look there.
> For now if you go to http://alevy.com
> you will hear an MP3 of a midi file I sequenced. I
> think it's "Put On A Happy Face" from Bye Bye Birdie.
> (I forget since I keep switching songs) No clicking no downloading.
> It's embedded. If you click on http://alevy.com/alevybb.htm
> you can click on a song title with MP3 noted and it will be downloaded.
> Last night I stayed up till the wee hours creating a really Mickey Mouse
> work around. Click on http://alevy.com/goodman.htm and click on a
> song title with MP3 noted and no downloading. At least it's a start.
> My aim is to prevent downloading but allow listening.
> I know there are better ways!
> P.S. to Beth. I know you meant well but "ram" does not refer to
> real media. It's a JAVA or HTML instruction.
> Real media extension is .rm I stopped using Real Player because
> too many people (including me) complained about the constant
> notifications interrupting or crashing their programs.
> I deleted it from my hard drive although there are still some remnants on 
> the web site.
> Cheers,
> Al
> Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Teacher and Music Prep.
> Please visit me at
> http://alevy.com
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