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Title: streaming audio on a website
Post by: Guy on 04 November 2011, 12:21
right then...

got a joomla website of a friend of mine but they want to stream some audio files as samples for people to listen to...

whats the best free module, plugin that I could use? they need to be able to play .wma and .wav files... if not then I need some way of converting them but retaining quality

this is the first time I have done anything with audio so your advice and guidance is appreciated

tia - Guy
Title: Re: streaming audio on a website
Post by: DubFan on 04 November 2011, 13:54
Try a web service like http://soundcloud.com/ (http://soundcloud.com/) Upload your audio to them, and then embed the audio into your webpage.
There's also http://www.mixcloud.com/ (http://www.mixcloud.com/) Same sort of thing.
Title: Re: streaming audio on a website
Post by: The Mighty Elvi on 04 November 2011, 14:17
What did the Joomla site say. Check the forums.
Title: Re: streaming audio on a website
Post by: Diamond Hell on 04 November 2011, 19:42
Soundcloud or similar as already suggested.

You need to avoid hosting the bandwidth yourself.

Even put it on youtube - doesn't matter where it goes.

Embedding is the way forward.
Title: Re: streaming audio on a website
Post by: Guy on 04 November 2011, 21:39
Soundcloud or similar as already suggested.

You need to avoid hosting the bandwidth yourself.

Even put it on youtube - doesn't matter where it goes.

Embedding is the way forward.

there isn't very much, only a couple of tracks... but it is all sorted now.. thank you

have used AllVideos (plugin) so that it can be skinned and either hosted on or off the site :)