I am creating a page with an embedded audio player that works on all systems I have tested, except on Android. The players do appear on the page, but you cannot start them playing. I’ve tried both the <audio> tag and SoundManager 2, checked whether the device does normally play mp3 files with HTML5 Audio … Read more
Apache doesn’t send me an MP3 header even when using a direct address to the file. It means I can play it with Flash audio players on my web pages, but when I tried to download from the direct address on my server I got: Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): The connection was reset Or it sometimes … Read more
I’m looking for a script / software to edit and keep track of a remote mp3 storage. Especially I want to edit ID3-Tags.. Any ideas? Does such a manager software exist? Answer the id3v2 program is a powerful command-line tool to edit id3 tags. MusicBrainz picard is a GUI tool that can also lookup a … Read more
Okay so i have this idea for a weekend project where I want to transcode flv/mp4 streams directly into mp3 format. How can I easily do that via PHP/Apache on a CentOS Server? (hopefully not as CPU intensive as FFMPEG) Any idea’s are appreciated! 🙂 Answer Firstly, ffmpeg is the tool of choice for this. … Read more
What kind of server is used by sites like Pandora or Last.fm to serve media files? I am assuming they would have something other than webserver for storing and serving media files… what are some of the scalable solutions.. Answer Pandora uses Apache: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:51:22 GMT Server: Apache … Read more
I am serving mp3s with a minimalistic nginx server. What I see in my log files is that there are a lot of requests, in particular from AppleCoreMedia and sometimes Android useragents, that flood the server with short requests. Sometimes they keep requesting to download the same partial content for a very long time; sometimes … Read more
We’re trying to serve MP3 files from web1.cowbird.com. Most of the time everything works fine. However, sometimes there’s a file that the browser is unable to play, and I have no idea why. Here is an example: http://web1.cowbird.com/items/stories/2012/11/04/05/18/47222/1_5095f977b4f532.99916135-original.mp3 If you wget or curl the file, it works fine. But trying to pull it up in … Read more
Do you have a “delete first ask questions later” policy for music and movie files? Or are you more lenient? Just wondering if there’s a difference between how large and small organizations deal with the issue. Answer What you’re describing isn’t a technical problem– it’s a management / policy problem. Small organizations often have no … Read more
I have created an audio playlist file (m3u) from a list of around 40 mp3s. I need to be able to combine/join these files into one large audio file (mp3 or wav) that maintains the order that they are in in the playlist file. Is there software – command line or gui – that can … Read more
I am using Firefox 39.03 and I’m subscribed to a few Google Alerts. I recently received several alerts each containing a link to a URL which is a PDF file whose only content is a link to a Russian download site that attempts to download an installer rather than the listed PDF file. I find … Read more
