Thank you for the information. I tried to do this one early last year and ran into the bugs with the early version of the Flash 6 Player. I ended using Windows Media Player instead. However, for various reasons, I need to revisit the option of using Flash. I don't have a problem requiring the latest Flash Player as I have a somewhat captive corporate audience, and I'd prefer to use MP3's so that we don't have convert all our audio files.

Three questions that I still have after reading your reply are:

1. Since this "progressive download" concept does not require anything special on the server end, it should work equally well pulling MP3 files from file servers using \\servername\filename.mp3 instead of using an http://servername/filename.mp3 URL. Am I right on this?

2. Do we know for a fact that later versions of the Flash Player correctly terminate the download of the MP3 file if the user interrupts it before the download is complete? This was one of my biggest concerns when I looked into this last year.

3. Are there differences in the amount of control I can have over the sound (play, stop, pause, FF, rew, etc.) if the streamed sound is a MP3 file vs. a SWF file?

Thanks again for all your help. This will save me lots of trial and error!