Quick and acceptable MP3 streaming solution

Question

I have to do a job overnight to enable a very simple interface for users listening to a radio channel over the internet. I am wondering what is the best soluition for streaming. I thought of QuickTime, but it requires users to have it installed and I am not quite sure Quicktime is as spread as flash. So I tend to implement something in flash. Do you have any suggestions on a good tool (it may be really simple, the simpler, the better)?

I don't want playlists and nothing like that. The website is built with DotNetNuke and it manages all the interactions. I just want to insert in the page that little bar that allows users to play/pause and drag to another part of the show. I will pass a parameter with the file URL and the player should manage the rest.

It won't be a live streaming, but rather streaming of MP3 files hosted in the server.

By the way, I found this project (http://www.sean-o.com/jquery/jmp3/) which is a jQuery plugin and it seems interesting. Does any one know it?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Use a flash embedded mp3 player. it can play mp3 play list or individual files.

Using jw player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) will let you create xml playlists easily. It's ready to go out of the box.

With JW Player you can specify a filename from the URL, meaning you could pass in the link as a url variable and not have to use an XML file. I recall XSPF player can do that too, but I use JW Player more.

Xspf player is another free mp3 player that is flash based.. http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/

If you want something more you can check out a google search like this one. this should be enough to get you going.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=free+flash+mp3+player&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a