RE: linking to mp3 files

It will send the files out with shoutcast encoding added, yes.

It might be hard to differentiate the activity as a download, or a
stream. Especially on some browsers.

If everything is properly configured, a browser should pass control of
the data to a 3rd party app (your mp3 player), and the data should be
acted upon as soon as it is received. There may also be a title stream
visible in your mp3 player. 

Wrong behavior would be the browser prompting you to save the stream,
but there is certainly nothing wrong about saving a stream. Normally a
stream would save to a very large file, and continue to grow as long as
the stream exist. In this case the stream is not infinite, and will
stop.

So there can be some confusion if you don't know what to look for.

-Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Liebeskind [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Mod_mp3] linking to mp3 files


Jon,

The thing that's not clear to me is this: should configuring the mod_mp3
default handler thingy make mp3 files be sent out as a Shoutcast stream,
or does that only happen when using a URL of form ?op=play&song=<foo> ?

Thanks,
Andrew Liebeskind

Disnard, Jon said:
> Yuppers...  You just use the mod_mp3 default handler thingy. This 
> knowledge is in the FAQ, I think.
>
> Once your done configuring apache to let mod_mp3 be the handler for 
> *.mp3 files, you can just put them in your www folder, and see them in

> your browser.
>
> -Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Erler [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 06:26
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Mod_mp3] linking to mp3 files
>
>
> Hello mod,
>
>   although there has been a thread in november about linking
>   single mp3 files on a web page to be played thru mod_mp3 i
>   didn't completely grasp it:
>
>   making a link like:
>
>
> http://tunes.zinkwazi.com:8000/?op=play&song=5f9a6ab7f7fdeaf880917e2c7
> 50
> 3022
>
>   is no problem, question is, where do i get the number (is it a
>   hash?) from?
>
>   isn't there an easier way to do place links to streaming content in 
> a webpage?
>
>   or is there a better approach then mod_mp3 for this?
>
>   thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Pat                          mailto:[email protected]
>
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