Problems streaming mp3's

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with streaming mp3's and clicking
links at the same time. It seems that while the mp3 file is
downloading it's impossible to click on links, it freezes until the
song is fully downloaded. To view the mp3 player i've built with a
friend please feel free to visit
http://www.musicplayer.fm/ -
if you sign in with username: "test" password: "password" and feel
free to play any song, and you'll see what i mean. I'm stuck
getting around this problem.
I've tried embedding the player using the SWFobject method in
javascript, cross domain streaming... and nothing seems to work.
The player is streaming the mp3 using loadSound(location, true);
and the location is fed using an xml file.
Thanks for any advice in advance.
Matt

No surprise at all - these are two different technologies for two entirely different purposes.
A podcast is meant for files to be downloaded to a user's computer so that they can be listened to at any time or transfered to an iPod. A streamed file is more like a radio broadcast - it can only be listened to while the streaming server is "broadcasting" the file to the client computer.
If you want to take advantage of both options you'll need to upload your file to two different locations.

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