Why Add Streaming Audio to Your Website

If you have a message you need to get across streaming audio may be just what the doctor ordered. Your website will almost always convert better with audio buttons.

What Do I Need to Add Streaming Audio to My Site

You may be wondering what it takes to add audio to your site. You may be surprised to find out how little it takes to get started. You probably have some of what you need and the rest can be acquired for little or no cost. Here is a barebones setup designed to get you going without a whole lot of costs.

What Do You Want Streaming Audio to Do for You?

Streaming audio is one of the most powerful things to come along in this generation. Statistics have shown streaming audio in most cases will help your conversion rate You need to have a clear plan of what audio can do for your website. There are so many ways to use streaming audio almost all of them will help you have a better site.

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider.[note 1] The name refers to the delivery method of the medium rather than to the medium itself. The distinction is usually applied to media that are distributed over telecommunications networks, as most other delivery systems are either inherently streaming (e.g., radio, television) or inherently non-streaming (e.g., books, video cassettes, audio CDs). The verb 'to stream' is also derived from this term, meaning to deliver media in this manner. Internet television is a commonly streamed medium.

Live streaming, more specifically, means taking the video and broadcasting it live over the Internet. The process involves a camera for the video, an encoder to digitize the content, a video publisher where the streams are made available to potential end-users and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. The media can then be viewed by end-users live.

Security remains one of the main challenges with this new methodology. Digital rights management (DRM) systems are an example of a solution to keep this content secure.