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[ConBud]

I have no clue what im doing, I went threw the steps on your stream page and I get the windows player up at my site but no stream.. If anyone can help please do. I dont understand how you get the domain and mp3 up. I tried all kinds of ways and when you right click the player it says it cant connect to sever. You go threw your library in your media player and right click propties and where to go from there Any help would be great, Thanks

[ConBud]

[Nunzio]

Okay...

1) The coding in use at your page that your friend provided will not "stream" anything. Streaming can only be accomplished with the use of an m3u playlist file that references the actual MP3 file, and never with directly referencing the actual MP3 file, which is what the coding that your friend provided does.

2) Even if using an m3u playlist file, the coding in use at your page that your friend provided wouldn't stream a thing anyway, since it does not use object and embed tagging for WMP but rather uses embed coding for the lousy Real Player (which is garbage).

3) Even without properly referencing an m3u playlist file (to allow streaming), the coding for the location of the MP3 is all screwed up anyway. It should read http://www.spitfirerecords.com/mp3/CrowWaiting.mp3 but instead this nonsense is there in your index.html (home) page > http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spitfirerecords.com%2Fmp3%2FCrowWaiting.mp3
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Now, the first thing you need to do is to create the m3u playlist file. Create a new file using a text editor (eg: Windows Notepad or Editpad). Include only this one line within the new file ... http://www.spitfirerecords.com/mp3/CrowWaiting.mp3

Then save the new file as CrowWaiting.m3u and upload it to your server.

Next, you need to replace this coding that is now on your index.html page...

<embed align="top" src="
http: //aolsearch.aol.com/aol/redir?src=singingfish&requestId=8c97d81459754a3& clickedItemRank=5&userQuery=Crowbar&clickedItemURN= http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spitfirerecords.com%2Fmp3%2FCrowWaiting.mp3
" width="150" height="50" type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" loop="true" autostart="true" controls="all" border="0">

with this coding that references the newly created m3u playlist file instead...

<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer1" CLASSID="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" CODEBASE= "http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
STANDBY="Loading Microsoft Windows® Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" width="280" height="46">
<param name="fileName" value="CrowWaiting.m3u">
<param name="animationatStart" value="true">
<param name="transparentatStart" value="true">
<param name="autoStart" value="true">
<param name="showControls" value="true">
<param name="Volume" value="-300">
<embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" src="CrowWaiting.m3u" name="MediaPlayer1" width=280 height=46 autostart=1 showcontrols=1 volume=-300>
</OBJECT>

Finally, save the new index.html file (your home page) and upload it to your server to replace the existing home page that is now there that contains the incorrect Real Player coding.
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Also refer to my How to stream music or audio from your website article for other tips and pointers.

P.S.
There are many many errors in the HTML coding on your index.html (home) page, but I'm not replying to correct those errors.
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[Nunzio]

Here's a working example (using your page layout) where the music actually streams, that I've temp-uploaded to my server...

http://nunzioweb.com/temp/ConBud/

Once you create the new m3u playlist file and also replace the bad coding now in use at your home page (index.html), and then upload both files to your server as I indicated in my above post, your page will look and work the same as the temp page at my server that I linked to above, and music will stream the same way.
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