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??
      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.

        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.