realaudio

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realaudio - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  RealAudio
  
     <tool, communications> A program from Real Media for playing
     audio over the Internet, and the lossy audio compression
     format it uses.
  
     The system is implemented as a client/server architecture.
     The RealAudio server incorporates an encoder which
     compresses sound into RealAudio files.  The client side is a
     web browser plug-in or add-on (a recent version of
     Internet Explorer apparently has built-in support for
     RealAudio) which allows the stream of data sent from the
     server to be uncompressed and output using the normal sound
     facilities of the computer, such as a sound card.
  
     A 14.4 KBps or better modem is required, and a 28.8 KBps
     connection is recommended for music-quality sound.
  
     (http://realaudio.com/).
  
     (2001-12-13)