[thelist] Opening the users default Mp3 player

[Paul Backhouse]

Cool - cheers, il look into that

-----Original Message-----
I will probably be the 20th person to point this out because of the lag on
my e-mail firewall, but:

> Ahh - maybe i didn't make myself clear - the music tunes are not be
> downloaded - only to listen to due to copyrights etc...

If you don't want them to download the music, you do NOT want to send it to
their default MP3 player -- because that would require their computer to
download the file, and many MP3 players offer options to save/relocate
files. In fact, you don't want MP3 files at all.

What you want is streaming audio -- the client plays the data one block at a
time and doesn't save it. There are quite a number of products out for doing
that; a good Google search will probably yield a half-dozen companies with
competing technologies. Most of the sites that have
"you'd-better-not-be-able-to-save-this" music trials that I've seen use
streaming WindowsMedia or RealAudio.

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