My church recently put out a CD and I wanted to put 40 second clips of the songs on our web site. I edited the tracks and put them into wma format. I reduced the size so they would download quickly as they are played. You can see what I did at http://www.upperroomcwc.org/audofone.htm. The songs play fine and Windows Media Player (or the default wma player) opens up properly on the computers I have tested it on. I have noticed that if someone is using AOL, it asks them where to download the clip to which I think AOL does by default. I am not sure if this is the correct way to do this process. Should I be using some sort of streaming program if there is such a thing or is this "streaming" in and of itself? Any insight to this would be really helpful.
Phil

You could try to http stream the song. Simply open up notepad and type the url to the song, eg: http://domain.com/song.wma, and save it with a .m3u extension. You may have to put double quotes around the file name when saving it to stop notepad from putting a .txt extension automaticly at the end.

Then upload the .m3u file to your server and use that to play the song.

Hope it helps.

Thank you for the quick reply and help. I tried what you suggested and the song still plays fine in Internet Explorer. In AOL, the AOL Media Player opens immediatly and doesn't ask to save any file which is good. However, an error message pops up stating the following: "The current playlist has no valid files in it, Please check to make sure it is not corrupt." I verified that the wma is still good and is not corrupted so I am not sure what it is asking for. I checked the syntax in the notepad file and even dropped it into my browser address bar to see what would happen. The song plays in Windows Media Player fine. Any thoughts?
Phil