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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Stereo RealAudio for FreeBSD!
To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 14:14:48 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611231856.NAA18699@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Nov 23, 96 01:56:18 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!!!

John