How to: Posting a direct link to hi qual stream.

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This is just a post to help people understand how to post a link to hi quality streaming. Many of you may know how to do this already, but it took me a while to figure it out, so I wanted to post a clear explantion that will show up when people do a forum search for creating links hi quality streams, or to any song on their taxi page (hi or lo).The first problem is creating the URL:The correct format for creating a link to stream hi quality audio can be formatted like this:http://www.taximusic.com:8888/<first letter of taxi username>/<full taxi username>/[lo_|hi_]<filename>_<song id number>.mp3.m3uFor example, Iffilename = Face The DayIf their is a space in filename then you need to substitute %20 for the each space. So the song "Face The Day" would end up being "Face%20The%20Day" when you construct the URL below.)song id number = 112168username = ericm001then the url to the hi quality version of the song would be:hi_Face%20The%20Day_112168.mp3.m3u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.taximusic.com:8888/e/ericm00 ... mp3.m3uand the link to the low quality version would be:lo_Face%20The%20Day_112168.mp3.m3u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.taximusic.com:8888/e/ericm00 ... m3uhowever, when you try to wrap that address in a URL (using the edit button URL) you get a link that ignores everything after the colon (":"). Just like you see in the two links above. To correct this you need to modify the url tags in your message as follows:Code:you fix the colon issue by simply changing the format from:FORMAT:<The url address of the song>EXAMPLE:http://www.taximusic.com:8888/e/ericm00 ... 68.mp3.m3uinto this:FORMAT:Name for link[url]EXAMPLE:[url=http://www.taximusic.com:8888/e/ericm00 ... 68.mp3.m3u]To listen to Face The Day - click herewhich creates a clickable link, where you can define the text of the link, if you don't want to use the actual url, to either a hi stream or a low stream:To listen to Face The Day - click hereCode for the above link:Code:To listen to Face The Day - click hereTry it for yourself and please post a message if I got any important typos in the code and I will try to incorporate the corrections back into this original post.Hope some people find this info helpful.Regards,q