[Newspoetry] surreal audio

[Scott Rettberg]

Maybe you guys should stream the realaudio, at the same time as you encode
and post MP3s--hell, if you can assemble a team of programmers on it, do
Shockwave too. Line up all three formats, we can do side by side
comparisons. Plus it would be very cool to get a picture of a NASA-style
bank of computers, programmers encoding, crunching, streaming in a waxy blue
light in the background while a lonely newspoet reads a poorly proofread
sonnet or two in at a single mike while overhead the words played on a
thirty foot screen while ten poorly fed socialists in the audience sipped
coffee and in a hashy fog, tried to make sense of it all.
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>From: Joe Futrelle <futrelle at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>To: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
>Cc: NEWSpoetry <newspoetry at ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Newspoetry] surreal audio
>Date: Wed, Sep 29, 1999, 9:18 AM
>

>On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:57:12PM -0700, Mike Lehman wrote:
>> That reminded me--- I've been waiting all day to hear "Horrible, Stupid Crap
>> Happens".
>> It works with my Realplayer Plus- lend you the disc if you don't tell.
>
>Thanks, but that won't do me no darn good because RealPlayer Plus
>isn't available for Linux.
>
>I also found out that RealPlayer G2 is not available for Macs and PCs
>with older processors.  The last version which supported a variety of
>processors and OS's was 5.0.
>
>> Joe Futrelle wrote:
>> 
>> > Oh great newspoetry webmaster, I am but a simple Linux tribesman and
>> > cannot hear your .rm files, as I must depend on the kindness of the
>> > strangers at real.com who will only give us the 5.0 player, and we
>> > have not the proper decoder in that version for your files.  Canst you
>> > encode the files in some more elderly format so that we may hear them
>> > in our non-windoze world?
>> 
>> 
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