Hi,

 

I am currently working on a site for a client. The site is dedicated to an old defunct dance music radio station.

 

I need to learn how I go about letting people listen too but not directly download huge one hour chunks of audio file.

 

It would be best if site users could have some sort of slider to shift about to jump to different parts of the audio file. IE, if you want to listen to the 50 min bit you dont want to have to wait 50 mins till it plays.

 

Anyone any suggestions how I do this?

I would suggest cutting the files up into 5 min sections, otherwise, people are likely to get bored with waiting even for their computer to buffer 1hr of audio.

I have a couple of musicians on my books, and even single songs can take longer than you'd think to start playing once you click on the link.

If you are a flash expert I expect there's a way of creating the feel of a seamless 1hr piece where you can jump between sections of 5 or 3 mins for example, but other than that, I can't think how else you can solve this problem.

 

Good luck

Cant I stream using something like real player? Cant you set the buffer. IE, so it doesn't have to load the whole 1 hour in and only load up say 15 seconds or so in advance before it starts to play?

Bump - Surely some expert web designer on here has come across this before? Internet Radio for one uses huge files.

 

My files are 45 mins long not 60 as previously stated.

can you not use a flash media player similar to you tube just without the video? that doesn't stream but it does download while you watch. I've never really done any internet radio before.

Hey m8,

 

Yeah something like that should be great. Anyone a clue if something like this exists?

 

Starting googling now.

Got the answer. Posting incase anyone else ever wants to know.

 

http://www.download.com/Website-Music-Play...16.html?tag=pub