streaming mp3 files in websites

[Andy B]

I need to stream mp3 files from my website (asp.net 2.0). Is there a good
way to to do this besides flash?

 

[Guest]

You can embed Windows Media Player object in your page. Go to MSDN and search
for the Windows Media SDK for sample code.

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[Andy B]

This will actually play on the clients browser if it is in a web page? That
is interesting and I will have to experiment with that. The other question I
would have is can you make the folder the mp3 files are in totally
inaccessable from the outside world (other than ftp and the MediaPlayer of
course)? If so, how?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Andy,

No, you can't. If media player is going to access it, then it will have
to be available VIA http.

You could go through the trouble of setting up a media server which will
stream the content to players. That might make it a little easier to keep
others from accessing the content outside of the server, but it also adds a
pretty decent layer of complexity to your project.