Best option for streaming music
Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:37 am
Hello there all,
My mate is an artist (singer-songwriter) in the local area and I'm designing a (probably relatively simplistic, as far as CMS goes anyway) site for him. I'm having trouble though, deciding on what to do about streaming music from the site in so far as optimizing bandwidth. Since the act is still quite small, I'm not going to expect a large amount of traffic but I'm just wondering anyway.
One thing I thought of was streaming from his myspace player, I don't know if that's legal (well, it is his own music) or even possible (myspace to an external site?) I could use a Flash player, or reduce the bit rate of the songs and just settle for the old <embed tag? Host it music off a different server (Shoutcast?) Or what other (good) options are available?
The web sure has changed since I last did a serious web site design/programming. Think, before youtube (2005).
Thanks,
Nay
My mate is an artist (singer-songwriter) in the local area and I'm designing a (probably relatively simplistic, as far as CMS goes anyway) site for him. I'm having trouble though, deciding on what to do about streaming music from the site in so far as optimizing bandwidth. Since the act is still quite small, I'm not going to expect a large amount of traffic but I'm just wondering anyway.
One thing I thought of was streaming from his myspace player, I don't know if that's legal (well, it is his own music) or even possible (myspace to an external site?) I could use a Flash player, or reduce the bit rate of the songs and just settle for the old <embed tag? Host it music off a different server (Shoutcast?) Or what other (good) options are available?
The web sure has changed since I last did a serious web site design/programming. Think, before youtube (2005).
Thanks,
Nay