Stream MP3 files with Microsoft Azure - azure

Question

Is it possible to stream MP3 or WAV files with Microsoft Azure?
I want to have file which can be played with any js-player including to start the playback from any point the users wants (like the soundcloud player,...).
I tried to use the Blob Storage for that, but thats not possible because it does support streaming so the file has to be downloaded completely to jump to a certain point of the song.
Is there a way to make this possible with the Blob Storage? Or do I have to user Azure Media Services (tried that but only found support for video)?

Answer 1

The problem here is the service version of the storage. I had to set it manually via a Java program to a higher version (2014-02-14).
Here is the code. You need the azure SDK (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java) and the slf4j, lang3 and fasterxml libs.
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.*;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.CloudStorageAccount;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.blob.CloudBlobClient;
import com.microsoft.azure.storage.ServiceProperties;
public class storage {
public static void main(String[] args) {
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount;
ServiceProperties serviceProperties;
try {
storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.parse("AccountName=<storageName>;AccountKey=<storageAccessKey>;DefaultEndpointsProtocol=http");
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.createCloudBlobClient();
// Get the current service properties
serviceProperties = blobClient.downloadServiceProperties();
// Set the default service version to 2011-08-18 (or a higher version like 2012-03-01)
serviceProperties.setDefaultServiceVersion("2014-02-14");
// Save the updated service properties
blobClient.uploadServiceProperties(serviceProperties);
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.print("Exception");
}
};
};