[d@DCC] CBC's use of audio/video media formats.

[Ross Jordan]

> Even if the CBC claims that the overwhelming majority of people use Windows 
> Media Player, then MP3 audio format would satisfy both them _and_ everyone 
> else "in the fringes", satisfying virtually everybody.
> 
> Plus, there's shoutcast and icecast which are free software that can stream 
> MP3 audio streams. These can be used on the large scale; someone I know 
> runs a service with over 5000 concurrent listeners. The CBC can't even 
> justify their Windows Media path based on cost!

Several operating systems don't come with built in MP3 support.
Windows 98/NT/2000, Redhat Linux (recent versions) and others.

-Ross


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