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Manx
2-16-05, 01:18 AM
Howdy
I am a complete newbie to website managing. I have just built and published my first site. Now I want to be able to stream some audio files, either mp3 or whatever works and need a step by step. If someone has a minute and could help me with this I would be immensely grateful.
thanks, Manx
Croc Hunter
2-16-05, 07:51 AM
Powweb is not a true streaming server type. You can achieve the next best thing if you read some of these threads.. http://forum.powweb.com/search.php?searchid=188880 If that's no help tell us target audience, file type, what you used to build your site or exactly where you're stuck.
Rick_E
2-16-05, 07:52 PM
You can just upload your audio files... rm, wma, or mp3 and make a page with hyperlinks to the files.

Alternatively, you could embed the file in your page so the player appears right in the page. The next message will have more information on this.
Rick_E
2-16-05, 07:53 PM
To embed the media file in your web page, insert the following tag into the HTML where you want the player to appear, substituting your file name.

<embed src="yourfile.wma">

(Substitute your file name.)

This method of embedding is preferred over trying to embed a specific player because it does not use an ActiveX control and should work with all browsers.

Here's a fancier version of the embedding code that sets the size, border and alignment of the player. You can change the parameters as desired.

<embed src="yourfile.wma" width="320" height="285" align="center" style="border: 2px solid #808080; "><noembed>A Media Player is required.</noembed>
metalmike
3-9-05, 10:32 AM
Powweb is not a true streaming server type. You can achieve the next best thing if you read some of these threads.. http://forum.powweb.com/search.php?searchid=188880 If that's no help tell us target audience, file type, what you used to build your site or exactly where you're stuck.

Link doesn't work. I am probably just going to set up a page with links and images (album covers) to some tracks off my releases (2 at the moment, dark ambient stuff). I don't need to get fancy, just would like to hang some samples/songs off my Darkened Soul site pages. I am probably going to get the domain names as well for it and redo the site with it as the main site and forlorn-souls as a pointed domain.

Mike