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Hi,

I just have a simple question It seems like Vibe Streamer downloads the song once, caches it, and then plays it, thus is doesn't really stream the music. Is that correct?


Mike

Vibe Streamer uses Macromedia Flash to download and play the music. Although since MP3 is a streamable format the whole MP3 doesn't have to be downloaded and Flash can buffer and stream the music while it's downloading it.

Whether it's cached or not on the client computer depends on the settings in the clients browser.

Ok. And the caching is also something the Flash player controls, not Vibe?

I would prefer that the ten songs I have in my playlist were downloaded once and then cached for future playback -that is possible?

Thanks for the answer.

Well yes, it's all in the browser. I know a couple of friends that have played around a bit with the cache settings to accomplish this and it works out for them. Try playing around with the cache settings in the browser since I'm pretty sure the browser decides whether to cache the songs or not.

By default flash caches the song in the Temporary Internet Files. And because the song is streamed at full quality , it means that the person listening can easily stream an album and copy it.

The cached mp3 files are directly accessible to the user. They can be copied to other locations and played. This is something that I don't want on my system.

How can I turn off the caching in IE6?

-j