Putting Streaming Audio On My Site?

[Mr Skills]

Here's my situation... I am about to design a web-site using iWeb, although I can cope with simple recipe-book HTML if necessary (which I think it will be on this request...)

Can anyone suggest a simple, free(ish) way of getting reasonable quality streaming audio on to the site? If I remember rightly I can just link to a .RAM file for Real Player, although this gives easy download access to the original file. I can also follow an online tutorial to put Flash audio on, although this seems limited to crappy 56.6k.

Is there a more elegant solution? Perhaps involving Quicktime?

Thanks! :o

[superbovine]

you need a streaming a server, which is way beyond cook-book matters.

[andy89]

If you mean background music, you dont need a streaming server.

Its hard for me to explain how to add it. Add it as a mime type (same way you add flash or quicktime). Its a bit like adding an image to your site.

Like I said, Im not good at instructions.

If you dont mean background music take a look at the quicktime streaming server apple does.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/

[iMeowbot]

Just go ahead and embed the file on the page, if you want to have audio there. Attempts to prevent easy audio capture from the Web are futile (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/).