Adding Streaming Audio to Your Website

Adding streaming audio to your web site can help you enhance the message you send to your customers and can serve as a wonderful confidence-building tool. In the past, audio was used primarily as a decorative effect, but advances in technology and the increased use of the internet by consumers have made it easy for you to add streaming audio to your web site and create a personal bond with your clientele. You can also add streaming audio to your newsletter or blog for a personal touch that will keep the interest of your readers and subscribers.

Streaming audio can be used in welcome messages placed on the first page of your web site. Adding a personal welcome message to your readers and explaining some of the features they can explore on your web site is an excellent way to enhance the experience of the customer. You may also want to add streaming audio to your web site in the form of testimonials from satisfied customers. Most computer users have the capability to hear audio messages and will find it a refreshing change from monotonous text that may or may not hold their interest. Your newsletter or blog will benefit from the use of streaming audio as well. You may want to add a new helpful tip in audio form each day to your blog, or include audio product updates in your newsletter.

Adding streaming audio to your web site, newsletter, or blog is no longer a frivolous addition. It is not difficult or expensive to add audio to your web site and you will find that your customers enjoy this new feature. The audio content should be conversational and pleasant, and sound as natural as possible. You can write down the topics and points you would like to cover in your streaming audio message, but record your message as if you were speaking to friends and family. Adding streaming audio to your web site, newsletter, or blog is the perfect way to give your customers a personal message that will give them confidence in your sincerity and integrity.

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TechRadar UK

Sony Streaming Audio App Coming to iPhone
TechNewsDaily
by Sean Captain, Managing Editor, TechNewsDaily Sony announced today (May 22) that it's bringing its streaming service, Music Unlimited, to Apple mobile devices. It's not the company's first foray into mobile: The service has already been available on ...
Sony counters Spotify with Music Unlimited app on iOSCNET Australia

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Android Community

Should you try Spotify? NZ music streaming services compared
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Music Unlimited is Sony's music streaming service, available on the web, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and on Android devices. There's plenty of music available – Sony just says it's ā€œmillions and millionsā€ – and it incorporates Sony's massive ...
Spotify hits Australia - is Freemium the future?Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Telstra singing about MOG online music serviceThe Australian
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Wired (blog)

JBL's Streaming Speaker Offers AirPlay on a Budget
Wired (blog)
The $200 OnBeat Air is a streaming music speaker built for iTunes and iOS. The clamping arm mount holds your iPhone, iPod or iPad while it charges. Photo by Jon Snyder/Wired AirPlay devices typically command a premium. If you want a speaker system that ...

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World's tallest tower opens
Brisbane Times
Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...

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ARIA To Introduce Australian Streaming Music Chart
Tone Deaf
The streaming chart, launched by the Official Charts Company (UCC), was the first of its kind to rank ā€œaudio streams from both ad-funded and subscription streaming services in the UK, to reflect the growing interest in this new generation of music ...

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Geeky gadgets

The playGo AP1 Wirelessly Streams High-Fidelity Audio from iOS Devices to Any ...
ParamusPost.com
playGo AP1 is an AirPlayĀ®-enabled receiver that wirelessly streams audio from iOS devices to speaker systems through Wi-Fi or Ethernet. Providing true Hi-Fi quality and plug-and-play usability, the playGo AP1 is a fully featured audio player platform ...
playGo AP1 AirPlay Wireless Lossless Audio Receiver Hits Kickstarter (video)Geeky gadgets

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RedOrbit

RIM unveils audio streaming service BlackBerry Music Gateway
Network World
By Chris Martin, TechWorld The small near-field communication (NFC) enabled gadget allows users to wirelessly stream music to a hi-fi, car stereo or other audio sources. The BlackBerry Music Gateway will be available in June with a US price of $49.
BlackBerry Music Gateway Uses NFC to Stream AudioPCWorld
BlackBerry Music Gateway: Streaming So Simple Your Grandma Could Do ItMashable
BlackBerry Enters Music Streaming Market: Too Little, Too Late?RedOrbit
CNET -ITBusiness.ca
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Brisbane Times

No yoghurt for John Butler
Brisbane Times
Websites in the Fairfax Digital Network offer streaming video and audio in the Flash format. Streaming media allows you to watch video on a website as a continuous feed, as opposed to waiting for an entire audio or video file to download to your ...

and more »

Radio goes online
Times of India
To make sure that the online radio does not eat up your bandwidth, many stations stream music and content at lower qualities. Usually online radios stream at about 56 and 96 kbps which results in a loss of quality (music streaming at 128 kbps is ...
The future of radio is online, device-driven and in your carMemeburn

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MOH Technology Simplifies Direct Audio Streaming for Cisco Unified CallManager ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The MOH Technology innovation is to IP-stream the on-hold content directly to VoIP phone systems such as Asterisk and CallManager, using a low-cost IP audio device that is separate from the VoIP server -- thus avoiding the need to update files on the ...

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