Learn how to connect to your Reservoir Amazon S3 storage bucket. This allows you to stream large (over 30MB) audio and video files from Amazon S3.
NOTE: Make sure to contact Reservoir Support to get your External Bucket name before starting this process. You will need this information to connect to the correct bucket for uploading your media (audio and video) files.
Setup an Amazon Web Services account at http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Once you have created your Amazon Web Services account, you will need to sign up for an Amazon S3 account (this will be under your Amazon Web Services account).
Notify us of the email account you used to create your Amazon S3 account (NOTE: This must be the email address you use to login to the Amazon S3 account - it will be used to set permissions to allow you to upload your files.)
Uploading files to Amazon S3 is very easy - as long as you have the right tools for the job. We recommend you install CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 on your workstation to managing your files at Amazon S3. CloudBerry offers both a FREE and Pro ($39.99) version of their software. You can use the FREE version to manage your files - you will be asked to update the software every 3 months, but it has all the features you will need to manage your files.
You have now registered your Amazon Web Services account in CloudBerry. The next step is to setup a link to an External Bucket which is where your Reservoir media files will be stored.
If you have entered the correct bucket name, it should now be listed on the right side of the screen. You can now upload media files to your Reservoir Amazon S3 account.
You will reference your files with the following URL:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/[external-bucket-name]/[file-name]
IMPORTANT - URLs are CASE SENSITIVE. If you use capital letters in your file or folder name, you must use the same capitalization in your URL.