I'm a seasoned Web Producer and Flash Coder looking for suggestions/feedback about streaming a large amount of audio. I searched for answers as best I could before posting this. If anyone can point me in new directions, or even better share some wisdom, I would appreciate it.

I have been asked to stream roughly 30 min of audio. It's a narration with background music and also some special effects. I am forced to stream it because there are sychronized animations to the audio. It must be as accurate as I can make it.

The audio will most likely be broken up into a few files, but the presentation must be seamless with no delay. Basically a 30 minute non-stop animated audio presentation. I am also assuming I must script a hefty preloader to buffer as much as I can to avoid dropping audio or frames. The delivery will be local but there is a chance to deliver from the web. This is what has me the most concerned.

Has anyone attempted streaming this much audio?

Can anyone share any precautions or tips to make this happen smoothly locally and possibly ways to convert it for the web?

I'm still playing with test-files and wouldn't mind sharing them... but who's going to be interested in dloading multiple sets of .swf's with 30min of audio!!??

Thanks again,
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