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    This article is a simple introduction to Streaming Audio and how it can be added to your website or CD ROM without expensive software, hardware or dedicated streaming web hosting.

    Lets start at the beginning.

    What is Streaming?

    Streamed audio, b
    According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
    e it MP3 or any other types of audio you may want to stream enables you to start listening to audio long before the file has downloaded completely. It's a bit like reading a letter while someone is still writing it!

    What are the advantages of Streamin
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    g Audio?

    There are several advantages to streaming. Firstly, your visitor will be able to listen to your audio very quickly. This is important, as we all know how impatient web surfers are. Visitors to your site want to be able to listen to your audi
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    o as soon as possible.

    Let's look at what happens when a visitor arrives at your web site and wants to listen to an MP3 audio that isn't set up to stream.

    In a non-streaming set up the link on your web site points directly to the audio file on the serve
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    r. When the link is clicked, a window will appear asking where the file is to be saved, and once that's been decided, the download commences. Audio files tend to be large so the chances are it's going to take some time to download, especially if the visi
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    or is using a slow Internet connection. The end result is that if your visitor waits around long enough for the download to finish - all well and good, but the downside is they have a copy of your audio saved on their computer.

    This may not be what you w
    ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
    ant, as it could be your copyrighted material you have given away. Although it is much easier to record streaming audio with readily available software these days, there’s no point in making it easier than necessary for people to save your audio, plus the
    easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
    y may not want large files saved on their computer.

    If you were to set that same file up to stream, and someone clicks on the link, Windows Media Player, Real Audio Player, or which ever player your visitor uses to listen to audio would open, the file wo
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    uld start streaming, and within a very short time your visitor would be listening to your audio. NB; The time taken between a visitor clicking on the link and hearing some sound will still depend on their Internet connection speed but it will be much quic
    and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
    ker than a non-streamed file.

    Is Stream Audio Difficult to Set Up?

    No! It's very easy, it just involves a simple text file that contains a link pointing to the MP3 you want to stream. The file is then saved with an '.m3u' extension. (without the
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    uotation marks). In other words this little m3u text file acts as a ‘go between’ to link, the link on your website, to the audio file to be listen to. All the support for streaming is already built into your visitor's computer.

    How do I Set Up Audio S
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    treaming?

    Here is how you configure your files. I will assume you know how to make an HTML link or have a WYSIWYG software program to allow you to create one, although the easiest way is to use Notepad.

    Imagine your audio file is called 'reggae.mp3'
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    and it's in a folder called 'mp3s' it’s saved in a website folder called ‘website’ and it’s on the 'C' drive. The file path would look like this C:website/mp3s/reggae.mp3 and this file has been uploaded to your web site in the normal way.

    Now we have to
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    create the m3u file (our ‘go between’) to link reggae.mp3 to the link on your website. To create this file, open notepad, and type in your full web address (URL) file path, and name of your mp3 file. In our example it would look like this:

    http://www.we
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    bsite.net/mp3s/reggae.mp3

    Now save the file as C:websitemp3sreggae.m3u (make sure it's saved with the .m3u extension) and upload to your web site.

    The next thing to do is to add the link on your web page that will point to the m3u file (our ‘go betwee
    t?

    As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
    ’ file) not the mp3 file. In our case it will be http://www.website.net/mp3s/reggae.m3u

    Now when someone clicks on your link, the m3u file comes into action, the default player opens and your mp3 starts to stream.

    Can I Set Up More than one Audio Fil
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    e to Stream?

    If you have more than one MP3 you want to steam, create another 'm3u' notepad file for each MP3 you have, upload the files to your site and point your link to the new 'm3u' file.

    Can I stream MP3's continuously?

    If you want one
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    mp3 to follow on straight after another, then create a file with the .m3u extension as normal but instead of just one file, you list the mp3 file paths under each other like this:

    http://www.website.net/mp3s/reggae.mp3
    http://www.website.net/mp3s/re
    .

    As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
    ggae2.mp3
    http://www.website.net/mp3s/reggae3.mp3

    So in this case when someone clicked on the link in your web page it would open reggae.mp3 followed by reggae2.mp3 followed by reggae3.mp3

    (NB: This works fine for me, but if you have problems with
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    this method you can set up a file using #EXTM3U extensions which will create a play list. I haven't tried this but this alternative is explained at http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html )

    I hope this introduction has helped you with your audio streaming


    tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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