I'm converting a site with spoken-voice audio files available for http streaming or download on demand, from RealAudio to Speex, and would like to recommend my listeners to use the great FooBar2000 player...
For each file I present two links - one for listening as it downloads, the other for downloading as quickly as possible and listening later.
Using RealAudio, the first link is just a 1-line metafile containing just the http address of the actual audio file (*.spx). This is/was necessary tio prevent many browsers trying to download the whole file before they pass it to the specified helper app or plugin... the browser is meant to just download the metafile, pass it to the helper app, which then starts playing the audio file as it downloads.
My question - how do I do this with FooBar ? It seems to just read the metafile and stop - I want it to open the file, see that it's a http address and access that http address. It works if I get the user to cut and paste the http address into Foobar's Location box, but that's messy, they just want to click once and start listening. Is this possible, or am I doing this the wrong way ?
Thanks
Rod