Music format for websites

[bulup]

hello, i am bulu pattanaik
i need to have some songs at my site but i am not getting the exact format in which i can store them at my site.. when ever i keep some of the formats sound always it is asking to download first then play i need it to buffer as they are at http://www.raaga.com and even i need that no one shall be able to download the songs to there local systems so please kindly suggest a solve to this..
Thanks

[evo]

I'm not sure how you could do this properly (e.g. valid xhtml 1.1) without having the sound in a flash swf file, however, you can do it like this:

<embed src="/musicfilepath/musicfile.ext" autostart="true" loop="false" />The music filetype can be whatever you want to use pretty much, .wav, .mp3, .mid.

You can change the loop variable to true if you want it to loop.

As for preventing them from downloading the track, using Flash MX or an equivalent app, e.g. Swish would help you try and prevent someone from taking it, but in the world of the Internet, if you can download it, you can take it.

Browsers cache files, so they can take it if they wanted to.

[bulup]

Hi,
thanks very much for your reply well... could u let me know one more thing,
i need to have an online radio at the same site... so which may contain a list of songs so will u please help me out in creating that....

i mean, what way can i have a live radio... at the site.. please let me know if u have any idea regarding this....
thanks
Bulu Pattanaik

[aswin_teja]

hey .. do u use DAP 5.x versions ? cos thats the one that does all miscief .. with streaming ..
else .. u might b dumb wrt streaming .. here it goes ...

streaming can be done in many ways ... teh simplest one ... is to use EMBEDDED players ( u can find many topiks about them in this same thread .. and look @ answers by aerospace-egg .... theyr are very good ...
else , u can also stream using FLASH STREAMING PLAYERS ( the one i use bcos i know flash to da max :P ) .... this needs a lil coding .. there are ready made players all over the internet .. they are easier to use and configure .. as i know :P
raaga uses real player to play files .. they store files as .rm ( real media files .. can be connverted using real director i think ) ... and streaming is done by the raaga player , that contains the available functions with real players .. they are easier ... but a large site like raaga uses complex codes ;) n theyr good too