Streaming audio is a method of listening to an audio track on the
internet, while it is being received, rather than having to download an
entire file first. In a traditional download sense, when you want to
listen to an audio file, you need to first start a download. Only when
the complete file has downloaded, can your audio player start to replay
the audio track. However, with advances in technology, it has been
necessary to find alternative ways of playing back downloaded audio
files.
To expand on this issue a little further, it is now possible to listen to radio stations on the internet, live, as well as specific concerts, and other applications are being developed all the time. However, if you think about it, radio stations that broadcast twenty four hours a day are not creating special files for each song online. They are just taking their audio output and sending it through a computer program to be streamed on the internet. Naturally, the big advantage is that audio in this way can be picked up, or started from any point, and then picked up again later, after a pause if you wish. Equally, it is an emerging technology and is thus becoming faster to start up from the opening of your various audio monitoring programs.
To expand on this issue a little further, it is now possible to listen to radio stations on the internet, live, as well as specific concerts, and other applications are being developed all the time. However, if you think about it, radio stations that broadcast twenty four hours a day are not creating special files for each song online. They are just taking their audio output and sending it through a computer program to be streamed on the internet. Naturally, the big advantage is that audio in this way can be picked up, or started from any point, and then picked up again later, after a pause if you wish. Equally, it is an emerging technology and is thus becoming faster to start up from the opening of your various audio monitoring programs.