May the 4ths be with you

[Bill Ballard]

At 11:40 PM -0500 8/24/02, Richard Moody wrote:
>     I wonder if someone can offer mp3 samples (legally of course)
>as tests?   ---ric
  It won't work. The internet isn't ready for it. I have a 4 minute 
music audio file, which is 41.5MB in originl form. As an .mp3, it 
weighs in at a trifling 4.6MB. But that by itself is far too large a 
package to send through the email system. You can of course segment 
the files, and attach the pieces to a series of emails , or just send 
the whole bunch through on one. Actually to someone with a  56K 
modem, the file is so slow to download that there really is no 
convenient way to do this.

Such files (any thing larger than 500K) are best transferred from a 
web page directory. A directory full of .mp3's would be an obvious 
place for roaming copyrght attorneys.

No, the world isn't ready to be tossing "CD-quality" digital audio 
files all over the place.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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