in reply to hi fi and low fi mp3 playing

The two links would just link to separate files wouldn't they? One hi-fi, one lo-fi? Check the page source and see.

As a side note, changing the status bar with javascript is evil.

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Re: Re: hi fi and low fi mp3 playing
by Anonymous Monk on May 04, 2002 at 16:37 UTC
    Yeah I think your right (although its calling a cgi script)- but Im looking for a different solution. I what to store a high quality mp3 (or whatever works best) and allow the client to select the sample rate at which they download it, for real time listening...is that possible??
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      It is (you'd want to store the original in a non-lossy format--WAV or something like that) but re-encoding on the fly's a rather CPU-intensive thing. Try, for chuckles, ripping a track off a CD to a WAV file. Encode it as an MP3 and note both how long it takes and how much CPU power it takes.

      If you've only a few different bitrates that you're going to provide the track at, you may find it better to pre-encode the music. If you're not going to do that, you'd be well-served to cache the various bitrate formats of the MP3s, so you only need to encode them once, disk space generally being much cheaper than CPU time.

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        I would have thought that the server could convert from from CD to mp3 faster than the cleint could download it and i thought that there would be some perl functionality on this considering its a web based application.
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