M3U files are simply text files with a .m3u extension instead of a .txt extension. When opened in a browser from clicking on a link to an m3u file, the listener’s default audio program will launch the playlist. Many mp3 players support the m3u format, including Winamp and iTunes. Here are the contents of an [...]

You can convert a song to a different file format while keeping a copy of the original. For example, you can save a copy of an uncompressed song file such as AIFF or WAV to a compressed format like MP3, AAC, or Apple Lossless Encoder. Saving a copy of a song in a new file [...]

Instructions for creating the playlist file: 1. Open up a text editor such as Windows Notepad 3. Type in the FULL path to the Web Address (URL) of your MP3 or WMA music file. If it’s an MP3 music file, type it in like this: http://your_media_url/sample.mp3 Repeat for each mp3 you want to add http://your_media_url/sample.mp3 [...]

We often are asked about custom embedding of audio files from your account into your website. We do have a Flash file that can automatically load an mp3 playlist into a flash player based on an XML file. To see our audio player demo, take a look here. GravityLab Multimedia offers MP3, Windows Media, and [...]

Linking to mp3 Streams Linking to mp3 streams from your mp3 hosting account requires a text file with the extension .m3u. This file has the URL to your mp3 stream in it. For instance, if a mp3 playlist named “Blues” was playing from the Streaming Server, and the domain name of the server was stream.mydomain.net, [...]

Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 If you are running Windows NT Server and IIS 3.0 and want to configure the MIME types, create a registration entry file with a .reg file name extension: 1. Open Microsoft Notepad or another text editor. 2. Type in the following text. (Do not cut and paste the text from [...]

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No. Windows Media Player 9 Series can play files in a wide variety of digital media file formats, but Windows Media Services 9 Series cannot stream all of those files. In certain cases, you may need to convert digital media files into a compatible format before you can stream them. Servers running Windows Media Services [...]

There are three ways of getting audio and video files (which are usually very large) to the end user: 1. Download – Download the entire file over the Internet, save it to the user’s machine, and then play it from the hard disk. Requires users to sit through a download that can take quite a [...]

Tom Keller had a problem. His Bluegrass on Broad Street program had just reached a milestone, streaming the last night of a summer music series on the Web with both audio and video, and the audience response—both physical and virtual—had been better than expected. But his plans to expand beyond the local area and its [...]