Re: website sound files: .WAV vs. .RA

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: : : : : : : : : I have RealAudio 5.0 and have been putting .ra files on my site...but I also have a few .wav files up there, too. Frankly, it's a size vs. quality thing; the .wav files sound better, but even recorded at a sample rate of 22050 at 8-bit mono and compressed with ADPCM, they're a lot bigger...and I only have 10MB to work with. Anybody out there have any thoughts on this? What would you absolutely do (or not do) regarding .wav files versus .ra files on a professional internet site?? : : : : Andy Gilmore : : : : J. Andrew Gilmore Productions : : : : gilmore@seacoast.com : : : : www.seacoast.com/~gilmore/voice.html : : : Andy, : : : I've been using an .ra file for my web-demo for about six months now. I gotten a few good hits from it, though not nearly as much as I'd like. I'd sure love to use .wav files, but like you...space is my chief concern. My page is through AOL, which gives its members a whopping 2 meg! I figure that if I start getting enough business from the web to support the monthly charge for a larger, more professional web page, then I'll go to something bigger, but for now...that's not the case. I'd love to hear if RealAudio 5.0 delivers better quality than the previous versions. : : : Jeff Matzka : : I had my site built using wav files because it is my intent to use it as a distribution method (to : : replace sending cd's) Currently only wav files : : have the quality to download and offload to dat : : or cd without major loss. I have had one potential client say they could not decipher my : : wav files but for the most part they are more : : readily accessible to the average computer user : : than RA. The truth is I should probably do both : : but I am just to lazy ...I mean busy. As for size : : mine IS big but its only fifty or so bucks a month : : which means two jobs a year or so will pay for it. : : John : I have RealAudio 28.8 on my site and have sent audio files to clients via RealAudio dual ISDN : with great success. Mpg layer 2 works well too. The : compression is enormous with no discernable loss : in quality. : Scott Carpenter

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