Support - Streaming mp3s
Putting up downloadable mp3s on your site is easy: just FTP them up.Making them stream is the fun part.
BIT RATE: On your site, you might want to have a 'download link' which has a higher quality mp3 file (96KBps) and for the streaming mp3s, you should record them around 42KBps so that modem people may enjoy your music.
HOW TO STREAM: Upload the mp3 file onto the server. Create a 'text' file in Notepad, SimpleText, or vim with nothing but the URL of the mp3 file. Save this file as 'onepunksong.m3u' and FTP it to the server.
| onepunksong.m3u |
| http://www.monkeybrains.net/~myname/songs/antibarkdevice.mp3 |
STREAM MANY: To stream a whole playlist, upload the mp3 files to the server, and then create an .m3u file with several lines: one song per line.
| punkorama.m3u |
|
http://www.monkeybrains.net/~me/mp3/antibarkdevice.mp3 http://www.monkeybrains.net/~me/mp3/nofx.mp3 http://www.monkeybrains.net/~me/mp3/dk_cambodia.mp3 http://www.monkeybrains.net/~me/mp3/criminals_corruption.mp3 |
APACHE CONFIG As a user, you need not concern yourself with this section, but if you are running your own server and trying to set up .m3u files, read this! You need to set the MIME Content/Type Extension relationship. MonkeyBrains runs on Apache, so I added the following line to the mime.types file:
| mime.types | |
| audio/x-mpeg | mp3 |
| audio/x-mpegurl | m3u |