[thelist] web audio question

[Daniel E. Boen]

Quicktime.  You can pseudo-stream by using the .mov format, and you can do
it using audio OR video.

Using audio you can specify whether or not the visitor sees a control strip
or not, so the audio can be completely transparent.  It's an elegant
solution and the best technology for the job.

Quicktime Pro is $29.95, and you can use it to encode.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade/

If you have any accessibility questions [do enough people have quicktime?],
have a look at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ to see that the format is
pretty much the hollywood standard for internet movie trailers, and Madonna
used the format for streaming audio of her entire last album on her website.
Apple has some data on the number of downloads, which is in the hundreds of
millions in addition to the installed base.

Tis the way to go, and I do quite a bit of audio on my sites.



Phil7/27/01 8:03 AMinfo at webdisplays.com

> At 03:48 AM 7/27/2001 -0700, Colin Buttimer <c.buttimer at mdx.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Subject: [thelist] web audio question
>> 
>> Can anyone point me to a good resource for web-based sound? I'm doing a
>> website for a friend's band and I'd like to provide a pop up window which
>> would play their music while they look at a series of webpages - I don't
>> have any possibility of streaming or anything serverside unfortunately. Many
>> thanks in advance.
>> 
>> All the best, 
>> 
>> Colin.
>> 
> <tip>
> An example of a popup player/javascript I made is at:
> 
> You can look at http://www.goguitars.com (handpickedguitars.com) this
> implementation of Real Player opens in a Pop-Up if and when the referrer is
> not the default index of the defined URL(s). This script allows player to
> load and play independently of website navigation.
> 
> Anybody loads the default page at either domain (same page for now) the
> script starts the popup. Returning to the homepage does not (annoyingly)
> restart the popup, assuming javascript is available (so referer can be
> detected) in the first place. (fail safe)
> 
> A single (text list) rpm file serves as the (link to) playlist, with a list
> of .rm files. No special sorts of server-streaming kludgeware is required,
> only that the server return the appropriate mime-type for the .rpm and .rm
> files. This can de assured with a simple .htaccess definition (if your
> srm.conf doesn't already have one) on any normal UX=IX/Apache server.
> 
> These are the appropriate ones:
> 
> AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio .rm
> AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin .rpm
> 
> Of course, you need a copy of RealProducer ($) to encode the real media
> files. 
> </tip>
> You could do a similar thing with plain javascript on the popup page to
> generate a playlist of more generic (huge) .wav files, but then you have
> windoze-mac problems. M$ .asf,  etc requires all kinds of crazy, expensive
> server kludgeware$ and nuisance configuration bs, with similar mac
> nonsense. The other universal media options are Quicktime, or using one
> monster Flash presentation for the whole site..
> 
> 
> 
> Phil
> webdisplays
> 
> 
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