Re: real audio for free

["Shel Swartz" <shel@lotsofun.com>]

- ----Original Message-----
From: Ken VanTassell <kenvt@geocities.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 11:53 PM
Subject: real audio for free


>There is a very low cost simple solution! The Real Audio Encoder is
>free...you can make real audio files that are very small. The listener
would
>have to download the whole file, and then play it on their realplayer. It's
>the streaming server that costs the big  bucks, it costs nothing to make
and
>post the files.
>
>Ken VanTassell

Let's assume the show is 30 minutes (I don't know; never heard it).
Assuming most of us have 28.8kbps modems, it might take 30 minutes to
download that file!  I'm on  a cable system, and it woukld take many minutes
even with my cable modem.

:) shel

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