Problem Streaming MP3 with PHP

[nasigoreng]

Hi guys,

I have a script called "play.php" that i use to stream mp3 files to our Flash Media Player. It's basically to hide our file location.

So in the embed tag it will be

flashvars="file=play.php?id=2" rather than 
flashvars="file=mysongfile.mp3"

However i have problem with my play.php. Basically when it's still streaming the file somehow the script freezes, i can't click any other links within the page (say i dont like the song and i wanna go to a different page), even clicking the BACK button on the browser is not working. It just waits until the streaming finished then it will go to the next/previous page as soon as the streaming finished (i hope this makes sense)

I have tried to access the file directly, flashvar="file=mysongfile.mp3", and there's no problem at all, I can click any link in the middle of streaming/downloading the file and it will jump to the next page straight away. Only if i use the play.php file somehow it blocks the page.

Here's the play.php file:

$file_name = getFileName($_GET["id"]);

header('Content-Type: audio/mpeg');
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filepath));

$filepath ='/pathto/'.$file_name;

if ($stream = fopen($filepath, 'rb')){
   while(!feof($stream) && connection_status() == 0){
         //reset time limit for big files
         set_time_limit(0);
         print(fread($stream,1024*8));
         flush();
   }
   fclose($stream);
}

I have tried using fpassthru as well, but same problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

[dbr]

I use .m3u files to play my mp3's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

I've not done anything with flash, so I don't know how this would work flashvar="file=mysongfile.mp3 replaced with this flashvar="file=mysongfile.m3u

It might be worth exploring though. I found the m3u files very easy to set up.

good luck!

[nasigoreng]

with m3u then people can still see the file location by opening the m3u file.

[dbr]

Understood, Why can't you also:
flashvars="file=play.php?id=2" rather than
flashvars="file=mysongfile.m3u"

[nasigoreng]

that "play.php" file is the whole problem that i've got

the file is locking the page when it's streaming a file

[EastCoast]

What happens when you call the php script directly?

You've sent a header with
header('Content-Length: '.filesize($filepath));
but haven't defined $filepath until the next line.

In the swf, what is your loadSound string?

[nasigoreng]

Hi EastCost,

Ive put the $filepath above it, still doing the same thing...

When i call the php script directly, it just plays the mp3 using whatever the browser's plugin, in my case it's QuickTime.

Im using a third party flash player, so i dont know the loadSound setting. Will it be something that might cause the problem?

[notepad_coder]

You might want to have a look here:

http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#47948

All the headers for loading an MP3 file, although that's for a force-download..