Real Audio Files

[Boomerang]

I have some Real Audio Files (88KB each) which I want to put at my site. I want users to click on a link and than the real audio file has to play.

How can I do that?

 

[link9]

Your ISP has to give you permission to have RA streams. Call and talk to them to find out if your plan supports RA, and if so, they can talk you through how to get them on your site.

You can also check out real.com for more pointers.


Paul Prewett

 

[Boomerang]

Hi Paul,

Our company host our own site. We use IIS (I think 4.0).
Make that more easy or more difficult?

Erik

 

[link9]

I went over to

http://www.real.com

and found this:

http://service.real.com/help/library/encoders.html

I don't personally do streams, but there are alot of tutorials and documentation on that page. If you are hosting it yourself, then you don't have to worry about your ISP (obviously), and so you will have to get the RealSystem installed on your server so you can serve up streams. That was the basic gist of what I got from what little bit I read.

Wish I could help more.

 

[aperfectcircle]

I haven't messed with Real Audio for over 2 years now, but when I used to want to get a file to stream I'd create a new text document. In the text document I'd put the complete address to the .ra file I wanted to play (

http://mydomain/myrafile.ra).

Then I'd name the text document whatever.rm and link to this .rm file on the webpage... When the user clicked on the link it would automatically stream the .ra file.

I don't know if this still works or not though...