The Concert Archive Help

Performances listed on The Concert Archive are made available from a variety of sources and come in a number of formats and distribution methods. Some can be streamed and others downloaded. For more information on a specific site's content, visit the site being referenced.

Definitions

Below is a list of definitions used by many of the sites who's performances are available.

• BitTorrent
• Flac
• Flash
• MP3
• Quicktime
• RealAudio & RealVideo
• Streaming Media

BitTorrent - BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution client application and also of a file sharing protocol. BitTorrent is designed to distribute large amounts of data widely without incurring the corresponding consumption in costly server and bandwidth resources.
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FLAC - FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular format for audio compression. Unlike lossy codecs such as Vorbis, MP3 and AAC, it does not remove any information from the audio stream and is suitable both for everyday playback and audio archival. The FLAC format is currently well supported by many software projects and hardware support is growing.
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Flash - Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for audio, video advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for "Rich Internet Applications" ("RIAs").
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MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners.
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QuickTime - QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive panoramic (and sphere panoramic) images.
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RealAudio & RealVideo - RealAudio and & RealVideo are formats developed by RealNetworks. They use a variety of audio and video codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats to high-fidelity formats. They are frquently used for streaming media.
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Streaming media - Streaming media is media that is consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered. Streaming is more a property of the delivery system than the media itself. The distinction is usually applied to media that are distributed over computer networks; most other delivery systems are either inherently streaming (radio, television) or inherently non-streaming (books, video cassettes, audio CDs).
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