A site that sells music needs to stream it—either samples or whole songs.  Network Solutions, who is building my site, does not have its own solution and someone else (SoundCloud, ReverbNation, etc.) will have to host the music files.
 
I have been a pro member of SoundCloud for quite a while and could use them but I have concerns:
• The SoundCloud site says there could be issues with IE versions lower than IE11.  WTH...LOTS of users will have older versions that that.  Thoughts?
• I have had issues with SoundCloud changing how it works without notice.  Hopefully, this won't affect a widget SoundCloud provides, but I am not sure.
• SoundCloud is not as compact as some players I have seen on people's sites, but I don't know how these other sites are handling things.
• When I go to the SoundCloud help page for customer players, all the links are broken.  That is scary.
 
Any suggestions on the best and most stable solution for streaming music from a website?
 
Thanks, --Konrad

konradh
• The SoundCloud site says there could be issues with IE versions lower than IE11.  WTH...LOTS of users will have older versions that that.  Thoughts?

Welcome the non-standard, non-reverse-comparable 21st Century.
 
IMO, those with a sub-IE11 browser probably already know they are not in great shape; and they are either anarchists or too broke to upgrade their computer (the usual reason for not being totally up to date). 

I'm working on a customer portal in pure PHP/HTML and guess what? Simple stuff like copy-n-paste, browser back buttons and such and such ALL work differently between the very latest Chrome, IE11 and FireFox.

I use the soundcloud widget on my website.  if it doesn't work for previous versions of IE, then so be it.

Exactly. Why would you want a customer who is so out of date with their browser? They would probably think your services should have 1960 prices.

 
I'm starting to think that my computer is getting out of date too... 

Well, I do not know about the best method anymore, but always you can embed a player into a web page (browser) and.............................do whatever.
 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/asiowmpplg/

The Microsoft Windows Media Player control is a Microsoft ActiveX control used for adding digital media playback capabilities to webpages. It provides a programming interface for rendering digital media files and streams.
http://msdn.microsoft.com...8070%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/...layer-for-all-browsers
 
Many other links also looking up -- Media Player Plugin Programming.
 
Use to be - embed the Microsoft Active X control - and then you had optional parameters that could be set.
 
http://jplayer.org/
Usually an answer somewhere searching on the Internet.
 

You could link to just .mp3 files of my trustmedia.tv server or an html 5 player...

i used some htm5 players i made on my www.soundtraxxmusic.com site and they were multiplatform and worked great! streamed from the TrustMedia sERVER.

Thanks for all the good thoughts.