title: How do you convert audio files (on the fly) to the browser?
body: <p>I would like to be able to convert audio files to MP3 to the users browser on the fly. The software I am using is: Apache, PHP &amp; FFMPEG on an ubuntu system. Here is the code I have so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
       header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
       header("Content-Type: audio/mpeg, audio/x-mpeg, audio/x-mpeg-3, audio/mpeg3");
  
       passthru('ffmpeg -i song.flac -v 0 -ab 320k -f mp3 -');
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With this code, only the first few seconds of the audio are converted, however, when I comment out the header functions, the audio file is completely converted but all binary data is passed through to the screen (instead of wrapped in the browsers mp3 player).</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts?</p>