Tutorials 

What is a controller:
With MP3 Sound Stream program you can stream audio invisibly from your website, the audio just plays when the page is loaded, but usually you will want to give your visitors control over the streaming. MP3 Sound Stream,  HIFI Audio Stream and MSI Jukebox software comes preloaded with a variety of controllers - small Flash movies containing buttons that launch and stop the streaming. Some of them offer extra features such as pause, fast forward, rewind, even seeking to a position in the track and volume control!

Controllers (Buttons)

Standard set:
This set is supplied with the program. Quite a varied selection. Click the link below to check them out. Note there are 47 of them and the page might take a while to download. You would probably not normally have this many audio tracks on a page, but it is possible.

Preview standard set.

Note: This standard set of controllers comes pre-installed in your software


Extra set 1:
This includes some nice pastel shaded dished buttons (requested by one of our customers), and a kind of show case button that spins in 3D when it is playing.

Preview extra set 1.

Extra set 2:
This set has a controller that was written by one of our customers. The programs help gives some instructions on how to do this (for the adventurous). This set also has some buttons with speaker pictures on them, designed by one of our customers.

Preview extra set 2.

Extra set 3:
This group of controllers (buttons) are mainly found on business and marketing sites. They are square pastel buttons with a play pause and stop button.

Preview extra set 3.



How to install:
Simply unzip all contents of the file into the programs "Controllers" folder.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
You will need MP3ss version 1.25 or above to use the extra controllers. This is because in version 1.27 a change to streaming/controllers was made to allow audio files up to a length of 4 hours 26 minutes to be used.

Notice I left the s and the d on the end as these tell how the controller etc works. You will also need to change the names inside the htm file to correspond with your file name changes.

Be sure to watch our free tutorial on creating your audio files and download the free Audacity Software.(opens new window)


IE Update Fix

Here is a video to show you how to allow the media to work without having to use two clicks to authorize delivery of the content. I am not adding it to any of our software as many businesses have requested us not to as their clients want to choose whether to allow it or not.

Video Tutorial (runs as pop up).

Create a new javascript file called, say. ieupdate.js containing the 4 lines of code at the end of this post or use this one. Here is your ieupdate.js if you just want to download it.

Then, at the bottom of any page containing Flash (or Shockwave, Quicktime etc) add a reference to this file:
<script type="text/javascript" src="ieupdate.js"></script>

And that is it!

It works simply by replacing the contents of the object tag with itself. This external rewritting of the tag is enough for IE accept that your code doesn't require user activation. The outerHTML feature only works in IE, but as IE is the only affected browser that is OK.

You could test for IE using your favorite method (document.all, etc), and instead of adding it to the bottom of the page you could add the code to a window.onload function, depending whatever is best for your site.

If users have JavaScript turned off then your site will work as before.

Hope some people find this useful.

Useful links:
Adobe: Active Content Developer Center
MS: Activating ActiveX Controls

Attach Code

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
 theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}

PS if you want to get it off your computer for browsing sites then use this.

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> 
Check "Show Updates" box -> Windows XP (KB912945) -> Remove