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Posted by lawrence k on 09/03/06 17:45
Jonathan wrote:
> Do you really want to reinvent the wheel? there are lot's of
> applications to use for streaming MP3's. I can not imagine that you can
> just at random put a part of a file on the web and expect it to be
> handled properly.
>
> While you might get lucky with the first section of a file in some cases
> (as this contains a file header which describes the file type) it will
> most likely fail when you get a part of the file without the header as
> it then only is a stream of unrecognizable binary data.
>
> If you use Apache you might want to consider mod_mp3. Or if you have
> perl available you might be able to use Apache::MP3.
Mostly, I'd like to recreate in PHP what Jon Udell does in Python here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/09/03/primetime.html
But he mentions how unreliable it is. But that article is 2 years old,
and I'm hoping the situation has improved somewhat since then.
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