[vorbis] streaming ogg audio

[Akos Maroy]

Moritz Grimm wrote:
> On the other hand, it's not really a problem to have it not working
> either - usually, browsers download the file prior to handing it over to
> the player. Unless you type in the URLs manually, get some .m3u file, or
> maybe use Winamp's mini-browser, you don't get to play directly off a
> webserver anyways. At least I never did or had to do anything like this.

This is not intneded use by any means. If this happens, either the site 
is made incorrectly, or your client is broken.

One should create .m3u files, that are downloaded and passed to the 
player. Then the player streams the audio file. One starts to listen 
instantly, and does not wait for the file to download. I mean: this _is_ 
the whole point :)

Image waiting a lot of time for a 100MB audio file, then decide after 
the first 30 seconds, that you don't like that particular piece of music.

<p>Akos

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