> if I may ask, what does everyone see in realaudio? The majority of music
> files I see on this list are .ram files. I'm personally not a big fan of
> anything realaudio, the software is kludgy and I don't think there's any
> open source software do encode or decode the files.
>
> What benefits does real audio files have over MP3's?
RealAudio isn't better for sound quality obviously but it is better for
streaming sound audio to people who may not have the capacity to MP3 (in
download times). The other good thing about RealAudio is that it is more of
a promotional tool than MP3 is... RealAudio has much better streaming
capabilites than the WMP (because the Windows Media Player doesn't even work
on the Mac like it does for the PC whereas RealAudio does which IMO is
limiting your audience).
A good reason for RealAudio is that you can't modify the files easily (or at
all) through decoding or re-encoding or segmenting, it's just one file and
ready for the listener.
RealAudio files are quite small than their MP3 cousin and take less time to
encode too... :)
JJB/opSN
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