Is There A Way To Stream MP3 Attachments In vBulletin?

[brandondrury]

Hello,

I run a music recording site. A popular board is the "Recoriding Reviews" section where an engineer or artist will upload their songs and then we bash the crap out of them and give suggestions.

I've had a few compliants that it takes 30-60seconds to download the attachments and therefore my users are reviewing less music.

Is there a way to setup attached mp3s to play back more or less instantly?

Brandon

[Awjvail]

If the user has Quicktime installed it should play directly in the browser.

[brandondrury]

It seems that attachments act a little bit differently. While on many sites I can click on an mp3 and it start playing pretty much immediately, with mp3 attachments, the song won't big playing until the entire song is downloaded even if I select the "open" option.

I don't have Quicktime and I really can't expect all my users to have quick time either. There has to be a way to make this work with media player or some kind of streaming player in vBulletin.

Brandon

[Analogpoint]

You could create a mod that when an attachment is an mp3, it will have a tiny, inline flash-based mp3 player and the download link available. That way someone can just hit play, or they can download the song. Something like this:

[Guest190829]

Search XSPF Player on Google, I think that is what you are looking for. It will require some modifications for vBulletin of course though.

[RobDog888]

You could create a mod that when an attachment is an mp3, it will have a tiny, inline flash-based mp3 player and the download link available. That way someone can just hit play, or they can download the song. Something like this:
Say, thats a nice idea Analogpoint. Could you post how to do it/code? :)

[Analogpoint]

Say, thats a nice idea Analogpoint. Could you post how to do it/code? :)

What I posted was a mock-up. It would need to be developed.

[RobDog888]

Oh, well it would be a good hack. :D

[brandondrury]

That looks like a great idea.

Does anyone know why an mp3 attachment won't play immediately but a link to http://www.domain.com/whatever.mp3 will play immediately? My guts says it MAY be faster to change the code so that the mp3 starts playing immediately in Media Player vs creating a new media player.

Then again, the flash media player thingy looks to be a great option.

hmmm

Brandon

[nix]

this mod does it.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=150491&page=74

[brandondrury]

Thanks for the update. I'll check that out.

On a related note, I've looked further into this:

I wonder if this I can change the MIME type / content-type to something other than
Content-Type: audio/mpeg or add something to this line to make the mp3 attachments perform as standard mp3s.

Brandon

[Konstantinos]

You could create a mod that when an attachment is an mp3, it will have a tiny, inline flash-based mp3 player and the download link available. That way someone can just hit play, or they can download the song. Something like this:

can we do this for memberinfo ??

[MediaHound]

Here you go:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=161567