streaming music with c# .net

[iis6newbie]

Hello all,

I would like users to play music on my website. How can do that with c# or javascript? I want to use minimum bandwidth.

Thanks in advance

 

[AtomicChip]

That all depends...

You could...

1) Just stick simple links on the site, allow users to download them and play them from their clients
2) Use a media server such as Shoutcast (with Winamp) or Windows Media Player (Shoutcast is free and fairly easy to set up)
3) Create a Flash application to stream the audio to the client

As for using minimum bandwidth, good luck. Any streaming media is going to chew bandwidth up quickly. For example - if you have 10 listeners and you're broadcasting at 64k mono, and these users are connected 24 hours/day, you'll be chewing up about 200 Gigs/month.

http://www.casterclub.com/bw_calc.php

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[iis6newbie]

AtomicChip,
Thank you very much for your help.
I already allowed them to download. Does option 2 also take alot bandwith ?

 

[chiph]

It would be roughly the same.

Chip H.


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