Random Junk wrote:
quoted 10 lines Hess Hodge writes:>
> Hess Hodge writes:
> > MP3s don't stream (ie play as you download).
>
> shockwave audio is MP3 and it streams.
> it's kind of a pain to set up tho.
> and of course the receiving user needs the shockwave plugins for their
> web browser, which basically means you are limited to mac and pc
> people. real audio may suck for lots of reasons but at least they
> distribute unix builds of their software...
Erm... mp3 is probably the most platform-independant format of them all,
because it's an open format. There are several good mpeg3 players for
unix, and most of them support streaming; them best of them, IMHO, is
mpg123.