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Hi,

I'm currently designing a small website and would like to add music to it using FP. However, I need to put the music file into a 'streaming' format so that it can be downloaded quickly and listened to on software like Real Player. I have tried formats such as mp3 but the download time is still to long. Any ideas? Thanks!

James

fibdev

send me the music in wav format and I'll compress it into an mp3 of suitable size. The problem you will face it this. The smaller the file size, the worse the sound quality the larger the size, the better the sound quality. If you give me a target file size to shoot for, we can probably make it fit nicely.

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phreakin

Here is a very easy alternative. Download the basic Real Producer from real.com. This will allow you to encode your .wav into an .ra or .rm format. Once this is done upload it to your webserver whereever you want, say media for example. Open up notepad or whatever and put this entry in:

http://www.yourserver.com/media/yourwav.rm(or ra)

Save the file as yourfile.ram and upload it toy our web server. Then place a link to that ram file and click it. Your file will stream perfectly without having to download it.

Hope this helps.

Hackerman253

It uses the file with smaller quantity of space, then so that the site is modernized quickly you make a scripts that he/she carries out a preloader of the files associated to the site

CUTTHEMUSIC

I thought that in order to stream anything you need a server that will support streaming. Not all servers support streaming by your might. I would ask your host if you can stream audio of even video and then ask them what you need to set this up. Good Luck!

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