A big thanks to Lucas Gonze, who runs Webjay.org, for responding to my Friday, Jan. 7, post on How to Stream Audio From Your Web Site. As I've discovered, there are a lot of quirks with using m3u files from your own server.
Lucas made me aware of a nifty little utility on his site that can "make these problems go away." What Webjay.org does is help users create playlists of media files across the web. It doesn't host the files. Instead, it links to them and creates streaming playlists of the songs you choose. Very cool.
Here's how to use Webjay to stream music from your own web site ...
Let's say the full URL to your MP3 file is http://mydomain.com/mysong.mp3
What you do is add that URL to the web address http://webjay.org/insta.m3u?url=
So the final link in your HTML would be http://webjay.org/insta.m3u?url=http://mydomain.com/mysong.mp3
Once again, I'll use my own audio as an example. Only this time, I'll stream a couple of original songs. This first one was just recorded last month with my friend Mike Silverman. I was aiming for a Crowded House/Squeeze vibe on this song:
Sin On Your Face (note that it's Sin and not Sit)
Listen HiFi OR Listen LoFi
Yes, I wrote the song and that's me on vocals and guitar. And here's a more rockin' tune from my old band Roomful of Jimmys, circa 1998:
Another Day Behind Me
Listen HiFi OR Listen LoFi
Did that work better than the streams on my previous post? I think it's a pretty cool utility. Thanks to Lucas Gonze and Webjay for providing it!
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