Hi there, I'm managing/designing the produktion of a website that contains about 300 MP3's.(All legal) The main feature is a search function that allows the user to home in on a single mp3 file and then play it. The Admin is to be able to upload new songs without doing anything but to point to the file on his local PC and then fill out som name/track info.
My worrie is on which technology to deploy to achieve a successfull player feature. There's no money for real streaming (I asume dev/bandwidth cost for this sort of thing would be high?) so what are my options? If we just make an ordinary link to the file I believe all sorts of things can happen fx; auto started local players, requests to save file or open it, etc etc.. Also people on slow connections might not be able to enjoy the music as it probably won't start playing right away.
What should we do? it's a real lowbudget production.
The site will be developed in ASP/MS SQL
Hope someone can help out!
My worrie is on which technology to deploy to achieve a successfull player feature. There's no money for real streaming (I asume dev/bandwidth cost for this sort of thing would be high?) so what are my options? If we just make an ordinary link to the file I believe all sorts of things can happen fx; auto started local players, requests to save file or open it, etc etc.. Also people on slow connections might not be able to enjoy the music as it probably won't start playing right away.
What should we do? it's a real lowbudget production.
The site will be developed in ASP/MS SQL
Hope someone can help out!