Hello Charles.

01 Feb 03 15:11, you wrote to me:

 CA> --8<--cut

 RT>>> I dunno, people seem to have been telling me that
 RT>>> streaming audio would work over 10M. I guess I'll find out
 RT>>> where the limits are, once I get going with this stuff.

 RT>> Well it works reasonably well over a 56k modem ...

 CA> At the risk of 'reminding' you of more information you already
 CA> are aware of, the music files that stream using 56k modems are
 CA> created with that purpose in mind. They are at lower rates of
 CA> bps and higher levels of compression which does tend to do
 CA> damage to the sound of reproduction.

True, :-)

 CA> Since few have decent speakers connected to their computer few
 CA> notice the degradation. If you've never heard the full CD audio
 CA> version of the music file at 320kbps you don't notice what is
 CA> missing at 28.8-40kbps. :-)

I do have decent speakers connected to my computer, and a great deal better 
ones connected to my high-end hifi. :-)

 CA> This was my reason for mentioning that full CD audio is 10meg
 CA> per minute of sound reproduced.

Understood. :-)

Russell

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