A-Z Audio Streaming - Streaming Real Audio from Your Website

What Do I Need To Add Streaming Audio To My Site

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You may be wondering what it takes to add audio to your site. You may be surprised to find out how little it takes to get started. You probably have some of what you need and the rest can be acquired for little or no cost. Here is a setup designed to get you going without a whole lot of costs.

Computer: Most any computer made in the last few years should be sufficient to get you started recording streaming audio.

Microphone: The mike that came with your computer will be enough to start with. As you get more experienced you will most certainly want to upgrade to a better mike.

Software: You will need to get several different kinds of software to put streaming audio on your website each serving a different purpose.

Recording Software: This ranges from the free recording software Audacity to programs that cost hundreds of dollars.

Editing Software: After you are done recording you will need to edit your recording. This can be done in your recording software but you may be happier with dedicated editing software.

Mp3 Conversion: Your software above may save your file in the MP3 format depending on what program you choose. If not you need to get something to convert your wav file into MP3. I use DB Power Amp, which is a powerful converter well worth its small cost.

Flash Converter: To stream your audio you will need a program to convert your MP3 into the flash format, which is called SWF. This is a simple process with the likes of Web Audio Plus, Sonic Memo and others.

Html Stuff: You will have to put your code from your flash converter into a web page if you want to see and hear your buttons. This is easier than it sounds.

Web Hosting: You need to be careful when choosing a hosting service. Make sure they provide enough storage space and bandwidth.

All of the above may seem confusing but we will go over the things you need to know to be successful. Create Streaming Audio ezine will help you each step of the way. Next time we meet you will get a basic tutorial on how to record your audio into your computer.
Tip! If you have an aviation site or science site, how about sounds from the Reno Air Races or Neil Armstrong’s famous quote; “One small step for man, once giant step for mankind!” Consider audio streaming and how it can help your website strategy in 2006.

Doug Taylor has been creating audio online since 1999. If you think that putting audio files on a website will be a lot of hard work and hassle then download a free 16 page special report Mastering Streaming Audio. Visit http://www.create-streaming-audio.com/csa_ezine.html for streaming audio tips, tricks, shortcuts, and techniques.

What Do You Want Streaming Audio To Do For You?

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Streaming audio is one of the most powerful things to come along in this generation. Statistics have shown streaming audio in most cases will help your conversion rate You need to have a clear plan of what audio can do for your website. There are so many ways to use streaming audio almost all of them will help you have a better site.

The first thing you need to do is decide exactly how streaming audio can help you. Here are some of the more common uses for streaming audio on your website.

Music: One of the most obvious ways to use audio on your site is to display your music for the entire world to hear. A local band now has a chance at worldwide fame simply by adding their music to their website.
Tip! I hope this introduction has helped you with your audio streaming.

CD Sales: It is now possible to sell your bands CDs world wide with your music posted in a streaming format.

Get To Be Known: If you are a marketer people hearing your audio files will feel like they know you. This is a major plus when you are trying to get their business.

Testimonials: Audio testimonials are very powerful. They can help you build extreme credibility with your customer.

Increase Sales: Most will agree streaming audio on your website will help increase your sales.

It has never been easier to create streaming audio for your website. Use your imagination for the many uses of streaming audio. Whatever your reason for adding audio you will find it should help your sales grow by leaps and bounds.

Doug Taylor has been creating audio online since 1999. If you think that putting audio files on a website will be a lot of hard work and hassle then download a free 16 page special report Mastering Streaming Audio. Visit http://www.create-streaming-audio.com/csa_ezine.html for streaming audio tips, tricks, shortcuts, and techniques.

Streaming Audio… Get Creative

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Use your imagination and you will find many uses for streaming audio. There has never been a better time to get started adding streaming audio to your web site. Audio can take your website to new heights. Here are some things to get your thought process flowing.

Personal: Adding streaming audio to your personal site makes a lot of sense and can be a whole lot of fun. Image your loved one opening your blog to find audio buttons there. Upon clicking the buttons she hears happy birthday in your voice coming over her computer speakers.

Newsletter: Sending out your newsletter with links back to your web page with streaming audio on it should increase your conversion rates. This type of multimedia is pretty new and should make your subscribers orders come alive.

CD Sales: Musicians and bands now have a worldwide audience to sell their music to. No longer does a local band need to stay that way. You can sell your Cds anywhere.

Book Your Band: Adding audio buttons to your band web site is an excellent way to get more gigs. You can save a lot of money by no longer having to send out promo kits. Send the promoter that is considering hiring your band to the band website to listen to your music rather than mailing out a CD.

Products: Audio can make your products worth a lot more money. The products you create can be expanded with streaming audio. Simply getting a small recording set up and reading the book and recording it can easily add profits to the books you have written. The audio version of your product can be offered as a bonus or you can up sell your customer for added profits.

Streaming audio is a great way to make your web site different and unique. Setting yourself apart is usually a good thing to achieve.

Doug Taylor has been creating audio online since 1999. If you think that putting audio files on a website will be a lot of hard work and hassle then download a free 16 page special report Mastering Streaming Audio. Visit http://www.create-streaming-audio.com/csa_ezine.html for streaming audio tips, tricks, shortcuts, and techniques.

Upload Your Streaming Audio Using FTP

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In order for your streaming audio to be heard by anyone you will have to upload your files to your web server. This involves using an ftp program. Your web design software may include one but if not there are plenty of free ftp programs available to download or Internet Explorer can be used to upload your files to your website.

FileZilla is a free, FTP client for Windows that works well and the price is right. You can do all of the things you need to do such as, upload and download files, as well as resume uploads or downloads.

Each program is a little different but they all work about the same. You will need to connect to your server using the ftp address your hosting company gave you. You will also need to enter your user name and password again supplied by your hosting company.

When you click the connect button you should see something showing you are now connected. Once you have successfully connected you will see one side of the program will show all your files on your computer. The other side will show your web site. Select the files you want to upload and click the upload button. The upload button may be an arrow. You should see the files being transferred and the program will tell you when it is done.

Make sure you upload the following files:

# Swf file
# Mp3 file (some programs require this and some do not)
# Your updated html page with the code from your conversion software pasted in

Ftp is very confusing when you read about how to do it but becomes much clearer when you actually try it.

Doug Taylor has been creating audio online since 1999. If you think that putting audio files on a website will be a lot of hard work and hassle then download a free 16 page special report Mastering Streaming Audio. Visit http://www.create-streaming-audio.com/csa_ezine.html for streaming audio tips, tricks, shortcuts, and techniques.

How to Increase Sales Through Streaming Audio

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Many studies have proven that radio is a good medium for product advertisements. People listen to the radio for entertainment, usually to listen to the latest music or to their favorite radio program. In between the program, advertisements on products and services are being played.

For many years, this has been the trend in advertising. But now that the radio medium is almost behind the audio-visual medium, the TV, and the Internet, other marketing strategies have to be employed to continue the benefits of advertising through audio.

It is then that the benefits of using music on websites were discovered. Before, music on the Internet was just available in downloadable forms as mp3. Even through hosting downloadable music on their servers, companies were able to get much traffic on their sites. And everyone engaged in Internet marketing knows that website traffic plays a big role in boosting product and service sales.

However, there had been a problem with illegal music download in which artists, musicians and record companies have lost millions of revenues.

Then, came the popularity of Internet music streaming. Unlike the former, radio streaming does not allow download of the music files. Thus, the copyrights of the artists and record label owners are protected.

So, how can this be done? There are several ways to stream audio from your site. First, is to stream a radio program from your site or blog. You can find free affiliate programs that allow you to stream their radio content from your site.

What will this mean to you? This means that your site will have new audio content every time it is visited. What's even great is that the content is being updated even without much effort from you.

In this case, what you needed to do is to signup with an Internet radio station and have the link embedded on your blog or website.

Another way is to stream mp3s. To do this, you just need to upload your mp3files on a server and add the files' links to the page. When the link is clicked, the browser opens a media player window and plays a file. However, since the file is in mp3 format, it may also be downloaded. Downloading music files without the authorization of the copyright owner is illegal. Therefore, if you will be using this type of streaming, make sure that you have the appropriate permit to do so.
Tip! If you have an aviation site or science site, how about sounds from the Reno Air Races or Neil Armstrong’s famous quote; “One small step for man, once giant step for mankind!” Consider audio streaming and how it can help your website strategy in 2006.

A third way to add audio to you blog or website is to stream music through organizing playlists. Playlists are m3u files, which if downloaded, will not play music if offline. Using this process, however, can be complex. Here is a short instruction on how to do it.

1.Save your mp3 or wma file on the server. You may skip this step if you know that the file exists on another server and know the link to that file. Make sure that the link has a .mp3 or .wma extension.

2.Open your text editor and type the path to the file. Include the http:// and the file extension. Repeat this step until you have included all the links to the files that you would like to be included in the playlist.

3.Save the playlist with a .m3u extension.

4.Upload the m3u file on the directory where the music files are hosted or to your server.

5.Open your html editor and embed the link to the m3u file. Through this, you can also set if you want to have the playlist to autoplay if someone visits your site of if you want your visitor to control playing the music. You can also set the volume level.

After the code is embedded on the html file, and whenever your site is visited, the songs in the playlist will be buffered, streamed and played one after another. If your playlist has several songs, the user can skip forward or go back a song in the playlist using the media player controls.

Doing this setup works for many website owners. Through this you can customize the type of music being played on your site. You can even play recordings related to your product to boost product awareness.

It requires knowledge of html to be done. But if it will be the best way to increase traffic to your site, why not request assistance from programmers. After all, having audio on a website is a proven way to increase sales.

Jeremiah Patton has been utilizing blogging to gain traffic and interest for his work at home business opportunities website at http://www.2ndincome4u.com