What is a Good Quick Way to Play Music Clips on a Website?

[limitphp]

I'm building a website where independent artists can sell their music, and I'm going to have play buttons that you click to play clips of their songs (like 45 seconds).

 

What is a good quick way to load those clips and play them?

Having those clips in mp3 format and pointing to them?

 

Using flash?

 

Something else?

 

It doesn't need to look pretty, just load the clip fast.

[soak]

There's a nice looking, customisable, tiny wordpress plugin that you could almost certainly adapt. http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

[DarkSuperHero]

I would say flash would be most versitile....and its on the largest number of user computers... :-)

[limitphp]

There's a nice looking, customisable, tiny wordpress plugin that you could almost certainly adapt. http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

 

I have downloaded that one....

its 12Kb for the swf file and another 12KB for the audio-uncompressed.js file and another 12KB for the required sw_library js file.

 

I'm looking at sourceforge for some.....if I can't find any really tiny easy to control via javascript ones, I'll try and figure this auioplayer from word press out.

 

thanks