Re: putting up real audio on your website

People,

Forget RealAudio. At this point, until we all
have high bandwidth reliable access to the net, which
at the moment very few do, the best option is MPEG.
I for one couldn't get "streaming" audio if my life depended on it.

mp3 is the most popular format, so go with that. If you use mono
.wav/aiff files as your source, it'll result in some pretty small
files that sound damned amazing. @500kb per min, mono.
<http://mp3.com> is the place to go.

Incidentally, going back to what Daniel Wolf was saying,
I hate Java, Javascript, Flash, etc. on the web. Pointless exercises for
now.
If you've got a useful application in Java, give people the option of
downloading the app as a compressed file so they can use it off-line.

- Drew
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Drew Skyfyre wrote:

> From: Drew Skyfyre <skyfyre@usa.net>
>
> People,
>
> Forget RealAudio.

> I hate Java, Javascript, Flash, etc. on the web. Pointless exercises for
> now.
> If you've got a useful application in Java, give people the option of
> downloading the app as a compressed file so they can use it off-line.

What on earth are you using for a connection? A pair cans and some string?

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Message written at 10 May 1999 21:56:12 +0100

>>>>> "David" == David Beardsley <xouoxno@home.com> writes:

>> From: Drew Skyfyre <skyfyre@usa.net>
>>
>> People,
>>
>> Forget RealAudio.

>> I hate Java, Javascript, Flash, etc. on the web. Pointless exercises for
>> now.
>> If you've got a useful application in Java, give people the option of
>> downloading the app as a compressed file so they can use it off-line.

David> What on earth are you using for a connection? A pair cans and some string?

May I add my voice against all these gimicks? Animation on Web pages
are distracting and usually pointless. Because of the use of trap
pages and the like I usually run with Java an Javascript switched off
anyway. How about using teh web for giving information rather than
exercises in flashy visuals which add nothing?

And yes, by contact is more like a can and string. I can get up to
200bytes/sec sometimes. And we pay for transatlantic traffic. E-mail
can at least be transferred on DAT-tape to faster home computers.

==John ffitch