[Dixielandjazz] Program Help

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

Al - It's been awhile since I did my web site but I think if you want it to 
automatically play you have to put the link to the MP3 in the HTML at the 
beginning of the script.
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <andy.ling at quantel.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Program Help


> 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.
>>
>> 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
>
> http://nunzioweb.com/streaming_audio-example.htm
>
> Hopefully that will help Al do what he wants. If not
> try googling for something like "how to stream audio"
>
> Regards
>
> Andy Ling
>
>
>
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