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Using Mp3 files- for Windows Media, Itunes, and real player, like NPR

I was asked to put up a listening station on our current website. The programming languages used are cfml and javascript. My director said that I will be sent mp3 files. I need to enable the users to select windows media player, itunes, or real player. I checked our webhost's documentation and they have nothing on mp3 files, only on .rm. What do I do? How can I use the mp3 files? I want the users to be able to select the program that they want to listen to and it automatically streams in their player (whether their default player is windows media player, itunes, or real player), much like NPR. Is there a way to do this successfully?

KenAdney

Not really my expertise, but I think you need to convert the mp3 files into a streaming format (like rm). There's some cheap apps to do this & I googled on "converting mp3 to rm" and got:

http://www.mp3towav.org/MP3-RM-Converter/
http://www.audioutilities.com/rm-converter/avi-mp3-rm-converter.htm
http://www.share2.com/easy-real-converter/

They're so cheap that I'll bet there's some freeware out there.

synergeticsoul

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won't the rm only run on windows media player though?

KenAdney

wma is your format for Windows Media Player, ram (or rm) is your format for Real Media. I don't know about iTunes but I thought it was non-streaming (i.e. the whole thing gets downloaded first) and used mp3 files.

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synergeticsoul

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daedalus_jones ,

is the process that you described specifically for Windows Media Player? How would I handle this for realplayer and itunes? I know that this also needs to be an option. will this work for those 2 players as well?

thank you.

synergeticsoul

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Can someone give me other options please?