Streaming RealPlayer music to you
Here is how to make a .ram file, It is very easy to do! 

You wil need RealPayer installed on your computer, Get a free one at
And you willl need a RealProducer get one at

Start with a .wav file compress it with RealProducer down to a .rm file,
save it put it on your website (songname.rm)
you put up two files on the website (songname.rm) and (.ram)
Now to make a Meta .ram file, If you use windows 95 or 98 go to start,
click on run , type in notepad-hit enter.
Notepad comes up, type one line of text, your URL and songname.rm
your text file should look like this,

http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/songname.rm

Save your file as (songname.ram) "like this.

(songname.ram)

put this file on your website with the other one, you now have two file on the the website,

(songname.rm)
(songname.ram)

On your website page put a line in to read,

<a href="http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/songname.ram">click here for music</a>

please note the use of .ram instead of .rm

This will turn on a ram file called songname.ram on your website http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk.
inside the ram file all it is ,is the URL

"http://www.yourwebsite.co.uk/songname.rm" this line is all the META file is.

It is made in notepad , saved as songname.ram and posted to your server.
The .ra file must of course be posted on the server the URL points to.
Or it will not be there when you click on the .ram link.
To play the song from anywhere in the world just send the .ram file or post the .ram file on another server.
Make a hyperlink to it in your HTML page on your website.

So what happens
the .ram file is used in place of the real .rm file.
the HTML page links to the .ram file.
the .ram file is handed to the helper.
the helper parses the .ram file, and gets RealPlayer (and plays) the actual file.
the .ram file is just a few bytes and downloads lightning fast.