Distant Music: Delivering Audio over the Internet

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streaming audio
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Advances in audio technology in the 1980s and 1990s made it possible for librarians to create digital copies of sound recordings and to provide off-site access to them through streaming-media servers. Because streaming technology could accommodate heavy use at odd hours from any location, librarians quickly applied the new digital audio technologies to curricular listening assignments, providing a parallel to the print "e-reserves" projects developed by academic libraries during the 1990s. The results of a survey of thirty-nine digital audio reserves projects offers information on streaming formats, streaming rates, access control, user interfaces, staffing, equipment, and costs.

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2003-03-01
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Published in Notes, Volume 59, Number 3, March 2003, pages 521-541. The author has asserted his right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. NOTE: At the time of publication, author Richard Griscom was affiliated with the University of Illlinois at Urbana-Champaign. In June 2004, he joined the staff of the University Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
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