[Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Jazz Club Broadcasts

[Edgerton, Paul A]

> Someone like Edgerton could explain why it happens, but I
> sometimes have trouble with Real Audio reconnecting
> (buffering) during play. I don't know if it's due to high
> traffic or what. It varies at different times of day.

Much as I love Ray Sherman, I won't be listening to his internet radio
station. Why? Because it uses RealAudio...

For one thing, RA is blocked where I work, so I must content myself with
WMA, MP3 and the rest of the alphabet. But more importantly, RealAudio is
doing unwanted things behind the scenes like installing spyware, sending
data about me back to the mothership and using some of its bandwidth to send
me advertising. RealPlayer really, really wants to be your only audio
player. What's more, it can be very difficult to exorcise from your computer
should you decide to rid yourself of it.

There are a few kludgy ways to play .rma streams without real player, but
none are completely satisfactory. So my solution is just to say no. I
actually prefer the Apple iTunes player (now for Windows!) but the Windows
Media Player works well enough. Neither will play RealAudio.

Most of the interruptions are network-related, or caused by an overworked
server. About the only thing a user can do is to select a lower bandwidth.
(e.g. a broadband user might try using a 56K dialup streaming speed)



-----Original Message-----
From: Nancy Giffin [mailto:nancyink at ulink.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:00 AM
To: DJML
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] New Orleans Jazz Club Broadcasts


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rev M J (Mike) Logsdon" 

> Am I the only one who notices that these are not streaming audio? 
> Every minute or so there's a pause during which there's a reconnect. 
> And please don't say it's my connection, because I do many a streaming 
> connection, with NO difficulty.
>
> Ideas?,

Hi Mike,
Someone like Edgerton could explain why it happens, but I sometimes have
trouble with Real Audio reconnecting (buffering) during play. I don't know
if it's due to high traffic or what. It varies at different times of day.

Hey! This is a great site for people like me with no jazz collection to
speak of. These shows put together some great material from great musicians.
For example, the show featuring Wild Bill Davison includes clips of him
playing when he was very young (Brett Boyd, our 17-year-old trumpeter should
check that out), plus a 1930 recording of Bill singing "Bald-Headed Woman."
There's even a 1940 clip of Bill playing "On a Blues Kick" -- on a valve
trombone. Fun!

Despite a few skips and errors here and there (like the announcer saying
"Wild Bill DaviDson" for the first five minutes of the show till someone
corrects him), we are fortunate to have access to these classic archives.

Thanks, Rebecca, for posting the link:
<http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/site/audio/nojc.htm>


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