I am looking to make a streaming MP3 player with Macromedia/Adobe
Flash for a community that creates distributable multimedia. The MP3s
are stored on various mirrors provided by the fans.
The problem we are having is that the MP3s are typically 30-60 minutes
long each, and if a user with a broadband connection is to open the
Flash player, by the time they are 5 minutes into the mp3, it
downloaded the whole thing.
This is no good for us, it is wasting valueable bandwidth. We are
looking to create an mp3 player via Flash that would not buffer the
whole mp3 so fast. We want it so that if the user is 5 minutes into
the mp3, only 5:30 of it or even 6:00 is downloaded. This way if the
listener decides not to listen to it 10 minutes in, they didn't waste
our bandwidth downloading the while 30-60 minute file.
Please advise on any suggestions. Not using flash is also an option,
but the alternative would need to be cross-platform and compatible
with Linux, Windows and MacOS (X and prior). Thanks in advance. |
