Playing and downloading songs in ASP.NET

[Sumaira Ahmad]

Hi,

Is there any way of playing songs and downloading songs from a server
onto a client machine.
I want to develop an application such as a music portal which allows
clients to play songs that reside on a Web Server. So does the web
server need to send the song as an attachment to the ASP.NET Web
application or does it do streaming?? And how is it achieved??

Please any ideas or any hints will be highly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Sumaira

 

[Hermit Dave]

you will have to use windows media services for streaming music
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx

scroll down a bit and under professionals look under streaming delivery

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Regards,

Hermit Dave (D'way)
http://hdave.myvnc.com

(I hear what you're saying.. but lets try it my way first)

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can use the media player activex control for starters.
Here's more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/winmedia.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncodefun/html/code4fun01242003.asp

 

[Sumaira Ahmad]

Thanks for your responses..But I am a little confused since I am
relatively new to .NET...

Firstly can i know if this is an easy and straightforward task??
Basically when the client requests for a song ( song stored on the Web
server's hard disk), he will send the song name in the SOAP Message
after instantiating the Web Service method . When the service's method
sees the request then he has to perform some steps.. Basically he has
to play the song for the client. Would he send back the song as an
attachment? How will it be linked to Windows Media Player so that the
client can hear the song??Can you'll tell me how that works a little
bit in detail.. I haven't used ActiveX controls ever.. I would really
appreciate it.. Or if some samples are available on this using C# on
..NET...

I would really be thankful if you'll reply to my mail and help me
understand this better..
Thank you so much.
Regards,
Sumaira

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

This is not a trivial task that you are talking about, but it can be done.

Download the Windows Media SDK from this URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/downloads/list/winmedia.asp

It contains thorough documentation that will answer most of your questions.

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I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://Steve.Orr.net