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Posted by Acid John on Jan-11-2005 01:59:

Mixes in Real format?

i tried searching for stuff like this, but to no avail...

does anyone around here use have their mixes in real format? like.. easy for people with dial-up to stream in and play....

id love to hear mixes from people, but i dont have the time, nor a separate phone-line so it wouldnt work or be very practical if i were to justleave my computer online for hours downloading mixes....

anyone else have the same problem too? or is it just me...

yea...real format? anyone?

Posted by Briden on Jan-11-2005 04:23:

real player sucks, that's why nobody puts their sets in it. proprietary , advertisement and DRM ridden crap, i don't need that shit on my PC, MP3 does just fine for mix sets.

and, many people don't know this, but you can stream an MP3 off a server just fine usually. try this, copy the shortcut in my sig, open winamp, go add URL, throw in the URL, then hit play, and it will stream just fine.

Real Players advertised itself as the perfect streaming format and all that, but all it really is a way to get advertisements on your desktop.

Posted by `pr0digy on Jan-11-2005 04:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Briden
real player sucks, that's why nobody puts their sets in it. proprietary , advertisement and DRM ridden crap, i don't need that shit on my PC, MP3 does just fine for mix sets.

and, many people don't know this, but you can stream an MP3 off a server just fine usually. try this, copy the shortcut in my sig, open winamp, go add URL, throw in the URL, then hit play, and it will stream just fine.

Real Players advertised itself as the perfect streaming format and all that, but all it really is a way to get advertisements on your desktop.

While I too hate Real Player, and see no use for the format, if you MUST use real audio (chemical-records.co.uk ), google for "real alternative" and use that instead.

Posted by Inertia on Jan-11-2005 06:41:

quote:
Originally posted by `pr0digy
While I too hate Real Player, and see no use for the format, if you MUST use real audio (chemical-records.co.uk ), google for "real alternative" and use that instead.

woah... will this allow me to listen to the essential mix show on radio1.bbc.co.uk? that's the only thing that makes me sad about not having real player...

Posted by `pr0digy on Jan-12-2005 02:00:

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Originally posted by Inertia
woah... will this allow me to listen to the essential mix show on radio1.bbc.co.uk? that's the only thing that makes me sad about not having real player...

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm#realalt

sooo much better than real player, and none of that bloated bullshit! Highly recommended!

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Jan-12-2005 20:25:

hmm.. media formats. fun shit.

a) Real, as mentioned, sucks ass. it sounds bad, licensed to all hell, and only supported by one shitty ad-laden piece of crap player
b) MP3, the defacto standard, makes poor use of bandwidth and sounds horrific above 8 or 10khz. It also has licensing issues.
c) FLAC, AAC, etc etc.. are very unsupported

that leaves Ogg Vorbis. Free, sounds good even at higher frequencies, uses less bandwidth for the same audio quality... fairly well supported, and all open source / zero royalty.

i've made my choice