Play Apple's .caf audio file on a webserver?

Question

Play Apple's .caf audio file on a webserver? I have .caf audio files (Apple's open audio format) stored on my webserver and want to play them from a web browser on any O/S.

Answer 1

I understand, this doesn't seem like the solution you're looking for, but...

Several weeks ago we faced the same problem. We have several clients which are posting audio files to the web site from theirs iPhones, and we need to play audios on the web site.

But we didn't find any suitable flash player with .caf format support.

So we decided to convert .caf to .mp3 on the server through the ffmpeg.exe utility. Happily, there a lot of flash players with .mp3 support.

Answer 2

Now I have not tried this... but...

This website:

http://modmyi.com/forums/skinning-themes-discussion/1769-how-do-i-create-caf-file.html

Seems to suggest that .CAF and .AIF may work interchangeably (It suggests that to convert to .CAF you convert to .AIF` and then rename the file).

Have you tried renaming it to .AIF and trying to play in a flash/java browser player? Alternatively just send it as a stream to the web-browser and let the client OS work out what to do with it (Like quicktime running inside the browser).

Let me know how it goes.