Re: FLASH: Streaming MP3 - MIME

[John Croteau]

Hi Dylan,


> would anyone happen to know the mime setting(s) for MP3?

Yes, there are 3 of them:

   audio/x-mpeg      .mp3

   audio/x-mpegurl   .m3u

   audio/x-mpegurl   .mp3url


> >Flash does not steam MP3.

Flash with sound compressed with MP3 certainly can stream.


> >It simply uses an MP3 compression scheme in

> >compressing audio from the .fla into the .swf. All audio is streamed as

> >part of the Flash movie, not as an independent format. The only required

> >server setup is to set MIME type for Flash.

The MIME type your server needs to playback MP3 compressed sound in

Flash is: 

  application/x-shockwave-flash    .swf


The same as any Flash 2, 3 or 4 file.


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