Posted by Barry Koopersmith on 08/21/05 18:40

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:46, Barry Koopersmith wrote:
>
>>I created a webpage with this line of code:
>>
>><a href="Scenic-3songs.m3u">(streaming with WinAmp)</a>
>>
>>The referenced "Scenic-3songs.m3u" file contains this one line:
>>
>>http://www.thefireandreason.com/TFaRLive1.mp3
>>
>>Here is the webpage:
>>
>>http://thefireandreason.irbl.net/audio/TFaR_audio_streaming.htm
>>
>>When I view the webpage in Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or Opera, when I
>>click on the link, it pops up the WinAmp mp3 player and it immediately
>>starts streaming and playing the referenced 11 mb size mp3 file. When I
>>view and click on the link in Internet Explorer (version 6.0), it pops
>>up the WinAmp mp3 player but it does not play the mp3 file. When I view
>>the html file locally on my computer in Internet Explorer and click on
>>the link, it pops up WinAmp and plays the mp3 immediately.
>>
>>What code can I use that will stream the mp3 file in Internet Explorer
>>on the website (as well as the other web browsers)?
>>
>>Thanks to anyone who can help me out.
>
>
> I suspect that you need to configure Internet Explorer to pass control to
> Winamp differently. It's natural to imagine that winamp.exe is passed some
> extra arguments that tell it how to handle the input file (e.g. enqueue,
> play). To say it differently, I don't think you should be dealing with this
> at source code level unless there is some M$-specific hack, which would not
> be valid HTML. This still doesn't explain why you get a different behaviour
> when viewing the page locally. Does the MP3 file reside locally as well? I
> assume not.
>
> Try to change your filetypes in Windows and see if the default application
> for opening MP3 files gets assigned different behaviours depending on where
> it comes from.
>
> It is also worth mentioning that by embedding the URL's in an
> application-specific (Winamp) format, you might peril users who use other
> players. XMMS playlists, for example, are constructed differently.
>
> Roy
>
Does the mp3 play in Internet Explorer if anybody else clicks that link?
Please let me know.

Is there a better method for streaming mp3 files on a webpage (so it
starts playing immediately instead of waiting until the entire file
downloads)?

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