Barry Lee Brisco wrote:
> Now, the site my prospective client wants is very unlikely to attract a lot
> of traffic initially. And we plan to offer about 30 different audio clips
> to listen to. So it is unlikely that more than a few people would want to
> listen to the same clip at the same time. In this situation, it seems that
> I could offer .ra files without the Real Audio server. Of course, I will
> have to inform site visitors that they must have Real Audio Player 3.0. But
> I do not think that is too much to ask, and as Suzanne mentioned many web
> audio enthusiasts are likely to have the latest free Real Audio Player in
> any case.
This is correct. I do this for http://www.trailer-records.com . They
have about 30 clips. Never had any complaints that someone couldn't get
a file, and never had one not served when I needed it to test.
The trick, though, is to read RA's help files from their site very
carefully. The conversion process is very simple, but if you spend 20
minutes digesting the FAQs, you learn a lot about subtly boosting the
high end of the recording to offset the low-end stuff RA does in the
conversion and get crisper files.
If you do need an RA server, RedHat 5.x comes with one for free ;)
B
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