audio streaming

[guitar77]

Hello,

I want to have audio streaming on a website that I am designing, so that people don't have to wait for downloading the music, I think its also better to have audio streaming to protect your files from being saved, which is what I want.

Please can someone tell me how to do this, do I need special software to convert audio files like mp3 into a streaming file of some kind? Or is there special code to enable streaming of a file like mp3 when I'm creating the site. I am using Dreamweaver, sorry I'm a creative type and not a programming one! (or lazy)

Any help would be very much appreciated, and thankyou for reading me question.

[monaghan]

There's a number of easily available tools to capture streaming audio, so you're not going to stop people saving the files

[clement]

you will need to convert mp3 formats to midi formats.
mp3 formats are just too large to be played on the internet, it drastically slows down the loading time of your site.

you can look for the software using google.
Search this: mp3 to midi converter

but i dont think there's much free ones around though.

[guitar77]

thanks for that info, but how do I put streaming media onto a website?

[monaghan]

Try this

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how...+on+a+web+page

[guitar77]

Thanks Monaghan,

Will check that out, cheers for that

matt

[guitar77]

hi,

have read lots of info and it seems that you can use http streaming, which is free and does not require a dedicated server - my hosting company does not support streaming media. But supports the use of these file types: .ra, .ram, .rm or .rpm.

so I'm now looking into how you convert to these file types!

[monaghan]

I guess you need the full version of the Real software (there may be others that produce .ra's, Google will help)

[FrozenDice]

Does your server comapny not support streaming media or expressly say you CAN NOT use it? I would be carefull it it was the ladder.

[monaghan]

http streaming is simply the client choosing to play the file as it downloads rather then the usualy method of downloading then opening. This is in effect a simple download as far as the web server is concerned. This should be well within the T&C's of most companies.

Audio streaming will serve the mix of audio files / live feed and requires server side software to do so.