embedding audio

[mooda]

Does anyone know how to embed audio. I want people to be
able to listen to a file but not able to right click and
save

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Anything you place on a web page or link to, is downloaded prior to being
viewed. So if somebody really want your audio file, they already have it.

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[Pepperoni]

Even if they can't right click on your page, they can still snatch the
files. There are several ways to do this.

One way is to merely open your page in Front Page and save. Front Page will
save all the files. This way they can grab ALL your music in a few clicks.

Another way is to merely go to view/source (in IE), copy the URL for the
sound file, and open in media player. (or even search their own hard drive
for the file, since they now know the file name) This not only works for
sound, but for your fancy backgrounds, watermarks, and your custom buttons,
photos and fancy mouse pointer.

Some folks use the function to make the page available offline, which saves
everything. Then they can play or disassemble the components at their
leisure.

There is no way to prevent others from grabbing anything you have online.
As a last resort, even the simpletons can do screen capture to snatch your
photos, bars and buttons.

Disabling the right mouse function is only a challenge to the determined
collector.


Pepperoni

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

That is not true of "streamed" audio. Streamed audio uses a FIFO buffer,
normally memory based, to bring down a part of the audio file then begins
playing while still download the audio stream.

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Hi Mooda,

Use the Window Media player addin at
http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/downloads/addin/searchresults.asp?s=5

 

[Pepperoni]

That is not true of "streamed" audio. Streamed audio uses a FIFO buffer,
normally memory based, to bring down a part of the audio file then begins
playing while still download the audio stream.

I think his point was that the entire file does eventually reside on your
hard disc. The file may begin to play before being fully downloaded, but
once you secure the file name you can retrieve the file from your disc.
Often, too, you can merely do a "save target as" save without even listening
to the file.

 

[MD WebsUnlimited.com]

Not with streamed audio as the entire file never resides on the computer.

 

[Pepperoni]

Not with streamed audio as the entire file never resides on the computer.

So, that may be the perfect answer to Mooda's question. Is Streaming Audio
always a third party application? I see services supplying the content. I
looked at the HTML <briefly> it seems to be a .swf file Can it be run
from the same site as the web site?

I see that decompiler programs are available that even add a button to the
IE toolbar to capture and retrieve the content. I suppose it saves the
content as it downloads. Apparently the content is saved to cache
somewhere. (Flash, anyway)

Apparently this is fairly new technology, part of the Flash Player
vector-based graphics format introduced in 1997.
(The Adobe pages I viewed in explanation were copyrighted in 2000)