Help on how to stream mp3's on a site

[jrvl911]

hi there... i need some help on how to stream music of my computer to a web site... i dont remember were i saw this but i know its out there some where... i have a mac... just to make a note of that... and yeah i need help on how to stream mp3's to a web site of my computer.

[Kimura]

Are you saying you want to stream and mp3 on your computer, to a website that is also on your computer?

or

You want to take and mp3 from your computer upload it to a web server and the stream it on the web site located on that web server?

[jrvl911]

well yeah i want to stream music of my mac to a web site... like myspace.com... thats why i need to stream it from my computer to that web site... like internet radio... i have found some stuff out there but its not free and stuff, so i was thinking if i can do this with html or some other way.

[BeachSide]

Shoutcast

[TurnkeySolution]

whay not upload it and do so? alot simpler although i will tell you something if this website isnt for shi*ts and giggles your going to lose surfers from stuff like that on a site selling anything never ever use sounds or music its a major mistake.
Use K.I.S.S. ! keep it simple s***id princible and your on the safe side.

[Frets]

shoutcast.

bandwidth and file size can hinder those whom don't have larger webspace.
Shoutcast makes a great alternative and one can actually DJ as opposed to simply have playlists.

[toicontien]

You don't need a streaming server. Just place a list of URLs to MP3 files in a plain text file, name it something.m3u and upload it. Then all you've got to do is link to the .m3u file using a regular <a href="..."> tag. Browser downloads the playlist file, opens the user's preferred media player and the media player does all the buffering. It's still done over an HTTP connection, I believe. It's not as efficient as a streaming server (which uses UDP instead of HTTP, I think), but it doesn't cost anything more to you.

Sample playlist.m3u file

http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample1.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample2.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample3.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample4.mp3



** The extra line at the bottom of the file is important to prevent application crashes in older versions of Winamp (Like version 2 and 3, I think).

[gorky]

you can link to it or use the <object> and <embed> tabs to embed the playlist and then provide a player on the page or in a new window using the various attributes of the tags.

-Gorky

[spock00]

You don't need a streaming server. Just place a list of URLs to MP3 files in a plain text file, name it something.m3u and upload it. Then all you've got to do is link to the .m3u file using a regular <a href="..."> tag. Browser downloads the playlist file, opens the user's preferred media player and the media player does all the buffering. It's still done over an HTTP connection, I believe. It's not as efficient as a streaming server (which uses UDP instead of HTTP, I think), but it doesn't cost anything more to you.

Sample playlist.m3u file

http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample1.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample2.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample3.mp3
http://www.somedomain.com/music/sample4.mp3



** The extra line at the bottom of the file is important to prevent application crashes in older versions of Winamp (Like version 2 and 3, I think).

I want to do the same thing, except take a *live* audio-stream, digitize it, compress-it (audio codec, RealAudio or MP3), save it to disk, & upload to streaming-server.

Is there a software solution out there to do it?

Shoutcast won't work for me (Windows server?), since my ISP says their server is Unix FreeBSD.

from my ISP:
> I apologize for the confusion. Actually in most cases you would need to
> have a dedicated server to stream real time audio. Both Shoutcast and
> Pirateradio.com do not appear to be able to work on a Unix system. You
> would need something that is compatible with a Unix FreeBSD system.
> Also because of the large amount of bandwidth that streaming real time
> audio uses you would want to have a dedicated server for this or you would
> have a large amount of over-usage fees.
>
> The Real Media file should be stored as a .ra or .rm file. The .ram file
> would just point to the Real Media file. Unfortunately we can not offer
> any assistance in how to create the file as it is outside our realm of
> support. I would suggest asking someone in our newsgroups.

Background on my project:

I'm currently doing some LiveWebcasting via pic/video updates:

http://www.jumplive.com
http://www.jumplive.com/main.html

I just did the Baja 500:

http://www.jumplive.com/baja500/index.html

I uploaded some .wav files of race-traffic (time delayed):

http://www.jumplive.com/baja500/index.html#raceaudio

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My next step is to do some LIVE audio-streaming. Can someone recommend a software solution?

I will be feeding an audio signal (from my radio-scanner) to the audio-jack of the PC. The
"software solution" will digitize it, compress it (MP3 or RealAudio codec), save to disk, send to
Pair.com server.