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Can any media players play directly from ftp or http directories?

I am curious if anyone knows whether any (free) media player out there supports playing mp3s directly from folders on the web. I have a good portion of my audio library on my personal website and I want to play the files (and make playlists, etc.) on my laptop without downloading it all and taking up the precious hard drive space. Is this possible? If not, I am open to other solutions as well.

fredshovel

You can do this in several ways. One way to keep the mp3 format is to use Winamp as your player. Make a playlist for every song in a simple text editor like Notepad and save it as an M3U file.
An M3U playlist is simply the URL where your songs are on the Website (including the folder) and finally saved with the M3U extension.
Example: http://www.domain.com/music/song.mp3
Even though this file has an mp3 extension you save this text as an M3U file.
Make a page on your website with all you music and make an m3U text file (playlist) for each song.
Then upload all you songs to that directory -- like in the above example your directory is "music".
When you click on a playlist, the m3u will find the song and sporn the winamp player on your local machine.
This also works with other players, and you can even embed a simple player on your website to make it look more classy.

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Merete

In my humble opinion No can't be done, it would also be a security risk.