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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 10 May 2005 00:44:24 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Ron Clarke wrote:
> >   And it is cold and foggy this morning (7.00 am) in Victoria, Australia. 
> > Nearly at the end of autumn.
> 
> What counts as cold in Australia?

   Depends where in Oz you live. In north Queensland, I guess below 20 
degrees C would be on the chilly side.
In the alps, cold is below freezing.

   Last night here went down to about 2 degrees centipede. It will rise to 18 
degrees today (forcast).
I find that cold, and we will have a fire going all day.


> >    Ogg sounds better to my ears, also.
> > Ogg uses a variable bitrate, higher for multi-voiced music, lower for 
> > single instrument or voice-only.
> 
> How variable, considering the download speed is pretty constant?  For 
> instance would it vary from 20K to 30K depending on number of voices?

   The "file" will surely download at the same (almost constant ?) speed. The 
"playing time" will be transfering elastically, I suspect.

   Good to have a buffer to even out the performance of the player.

Regards,
          Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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