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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD!
To: toor@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:20:02 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611231914.OAA05729@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at "Nov 23, 96 02:14:48 pm"
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> > Might I suggest that RA sucks for any high quality audio,a nd you should
> > instead use MPEG audio streams, which at 112kbps sound virtually
> > indistinguishable from the real CD source, and works with maplay or xing
> > streamworks.
> >
> > RA is fine for low low bandwidth, but Xing! is much much MUCH (and standards

> > based) better than RA for high quality streams.
> >
> Thanks for the pointer!!!

mpegaudio (the encoder) I beleive is already a port as well as maplay, if not
let me know.  I have personnelly digitized 578 tracks and placed them on a 3gb
HD that I randomly play from, my own personalized jukebox, saved me the trouble
of having to keep swapping CD's in and out of my machine :)  Its truly awesome,
I leave a maplay running in the background almost always, along with xfqcam
doing my security camera work, and netscape and a half dozen 80x24 windows,
with zero problems on my PP200.  I did have to nice -10 the maplay process so
it wouldnt be starved :)

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich