I can connect through my cable modem at almost any time of the day or night
to MP3.COM and get a 128K 44khz streaming playback in about 2 seconds
without any stuttering or interruptions. It's not generally the server, it's
your connection to the internet, or the routing between you and the server
Don't forget that technology is evolving more rapidly than at any other
time in recorded history. It wasn't so long ago that paying $1000 per
megabyte of hard drive was a bargain, and related technologies have
made similar advances in the same period. Today, $60 of CPU can encode
MP3 in real ti
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Magic wrote:
> phones, I have yet to actually see a server on the internet that will output
> an MP3 stream at a decent bitrate sustained long enough to play without
> stuttering.
My ISP has a mp3 stream at 128k 44khz which is pretty darn good, and using
the satelite highsp
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> In a message dated 1/25/00 7:34:03 AM Central Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> /|\/|\ If they make mobile phones into portable music technology then this
> will increase that health risk exponentially, as 1 or 2 minute calls turn
> into 2 hour music li
In a message dated 1/25/00 7:34:03 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/|\/|\ If they make mobile phones into portable music technology then this
will increase that health risk exponentially, as 1 or 2 minute calls turn
into 2 hour music listening sessions. /|\/|\
To heck w
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> What worries me more is that this will essentially increase the number of
> cases of cancer. We already know it to be a fact that prolonged use of
> mobile phones, especially over prolonged periods of several minutes or more
> at a time, is a large health risk. If th
From: Ralph Smeets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: MD: MD Wins (was Re: Will MD Survive?).
> There is only one thing that wories me... Mobile phones and the
> upcomming new standard
> will allow us to list
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> Ralph wrote:
>
> > There is only one thing that wories me... Mobile phones and the
> > upcomming new standard
> > will allow us to listen to MP3 music using our phone. It will allow us
> > to connect to a
> > site and listen to it!
> >
> At mobile phone rates ? List
Ralph wrote:
> There is only one thing that wories me... Mobile phones and the
> upcomming new standard
> will allow us to listen to MP3 music using our phone. It will allow us
> to connect to a
> site and listen to it!
>
At mobile phone rates ? Listen to music while your brain fries ? Mmm Mmm
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> Sometime I think that those of us that have a PC automatically assume that
> everyone else in the world has a PC too. Obviously this is not true, and while
> the awareness of PC's has certainly risen to heady heights many people still
> only use them at work or not at
IMHO - MD and MP3 will survive but each will find
it's own niche and there will be some overlap.
MD = portable playback and record in a small package.
MP3 = portable playback - no portable record (unless you have a laptop
with a large HDD for WAV recording before encoding - or record at
extreme
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