Re: (idm) RealAudio listeners take note...

From Jon Drukman
Sent Mon, Jun 8th 1998, 18:18

Eric Frans wrote:
> Granted, RealAudio quality is majorly inferior to MP3, but in my view RealAudio
> provides a good way to preview music and listen to concerts/DJ mixes without
> the horrendous download times of Mpeg (i.e. RealAudio is definitely no
> substitute for the original and it never was intended to be).

mp3 is a streaming format, just like realaudio.  it just takes a little
more detective work to find the streaming-capable MP3 players.  (and of
course most people create their mp3s at 128 kbps so you need at least
that much bandwidth to stream it successfully).

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Jon Drukman                                            xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx
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