• Playerless: Use Clipstream™ Audio 3 to play high quality audio with a Java applet when you do not wish the visiting user to have a specific player or plugin.
• Instant playback by streaming: The applet will begin streaming to the user's computer immediately and begin playing while continuing to download the file. Simply putting up a digital audio file means that the user will have to download most of the file before it starts playing.
• Bandwidth savings: streaming also is an advantage because the user downloads only as much as they wish to listen, no more.
• Security: Clipstream™ Audio encoded files can be secured to make it difficult to capture, rehost or codebase.
• Extensibility: Clipstream™ Audio works with JavaScript, Flash interfaces or databases. For example, an audio classifieds or music clip directory would need audio files to be linked into a database.
• High quality: Clipstream™ Audio encoded files beat mp3 for instant playback at high fidelity levels. Lower bit rate Clipstream™ files beat higher bitrate mp3, meaning you can save bandwidth and storage by using lower bit rates versus heavier downloadable digital audio.

1. Select input files: Drag-and-drop or individually select mp3, .wav, .aiff, .cda files
2. Encode: Encode the files into a specified directory.
3. Upload: FTP all the audio and common files to an existing web server.
4. Embed in web page: edit and publish the web pages where the audio will be played from to include the proprietary Java applet

The Clipstream™ Audio applet is generated by a Java-enabled browser to appear in the space of your webpage where you placed the code. The applet can call upon a graphic buttonset, play automatically, loop or even play in the background without graphics as defined by the user. The applet calls upon Clipstream™ Audio 3 Encoder-generated audio files uploaded to a web server.

Clipstream™ Audio 3 offers two dialup bitrates - 32kbps (mono), 44kbps (mono) - and seven broadband bitrates - 64 (mono/stereo), 96 (mono/stereo), 128 (mono/stereo), 256, 512kbps that can all be offered through a single applet. You have the option of including as many bitrates as you wish depending upon your estimated audience. More on bit rates here >>

Clipstream™ Audio uses Sun Microsystems or Microsoft Java to render a secure applet (a tiny program generated by the browser) . Java-enabled browsers are more than 90% of installed browsers meaning that the vast majority of browsers are able to use the hundreds of thousands of applets available on the web - including Clipstream™ Audio. (Clipstream™ is a Sun Java partner in technology).

Each Clipstream™ Audio applet is tied to a web domain by a license key provided by Clipstream™ Audio sales representative or the online purchasing system. The files will otherwise not play except on a local hard drive (for testing purposes). An applet can be licensed across several domains if requested.

How is Clipstream™ Audio secure?