What Flash does support is MP3, WAVE, and FLV. FLV & MP3 support are both supported in Flash 6; FLV loaded from Flashcom, or inserted at authortime. MP3 via Sound.loadSound, or streaming (no-cached) via Flashcom. FLV’s are supported dynamically loaded via Flash Player 7.

When I had hard-drive space, I used my JXL radio to play some mp3’s I did. Until I move my server this weekend, it won’t be back up, but till then, here’s a simple loadSound example:

http://www.jessewarden.com/jxllizzite/radio.html

The source code is incluced. It’s simply a Flash mp3 player that plays a list of mp3’s. I’ve been trying to implement a mini-mp3 player via Central, but never got the time to do so.

If you do not wish to spend the dough on Flashcom, nor your client, you can either upload your mp3’s, or use a PHP/Perl script to access a SHOUTCast stream. You can do this as long as you reload the Flash sound object from time to time since Flash doesn’t get rid of the memory it’s using. Here’s the PHP code version:

http://www.pixelplay.org/jeff/test3/

Cheers,
Brent

More importantly, I did nab several good practical structural tips from the sample code you walked through.

So entertaining and informative. How can I ask for more?

Heck, there was even brief nudity.