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

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 10 May 2005 02:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> >   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.
> 
> Do you time how long it takes the centipedes to go two centimeters?
> We are having similar temperatures here, if you measure in centigrade, and 
> finding it summerlike.  People are out in shorts.

   Yeah, we have those here too.  
 
> >   Good to have a buffer to even out the performance of the player.
> 
> I will try setting a larger buffer than 320K if OGG files don't sound 
> right.  It seems that music with more voices will require more bandwidth 
> to download.

   I don't think so. It will still download at your connection rate.

> 
> I just found another site (something like classicalarchives.com) where you 
> can listen to most of the works of Bach, among others, at 28K streaming 
> MP3 (5 free a day) or if you pay $25/year, nearly unlimited downloads of 
> those and 128-160K MP3s.  Also MIDI files, for which I don't have linux 
> set up yet (unless mplayer also does MIDI).

   No, mplayer does not do MIDI.  For that you need Timidity.

Regards,
         Ron

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