How to play audio from a link (Windows, MacOSX)?

Question

C++ / C#

It is necessary to play the file received by the link from some hosting. For example http://host.ru/audio.mp3. The task is to play the file, but not waiting until it is completely downloaded. How can this be implemented on Windows and MacOSX? In which direction to dig?

Answer 1

Under MacOS X this came in handy https://github.com/tumtumtum/StreamingKit

Answer 2

Qt supports focus:
QMediaPlayer

player = new QMediaPlayer;

playlist = new QMediaPlaylist(player);
playlist->addMedia(QUrl("http://example.com/myfile1.mp3"));
playlist->addMedia(QUrl("http://example.com/myfile2.mp3"));
// ...
playlist->setCurrentIndex(1);
player->play();

Answer 3

I haven't tried libzplay.sourceforge.net/WELCOME.html for windows
under poppy.