Streaming Audio - What Is It and What Are the Advantages?

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.

In addition, it is possible to also record streaming audio files into smaller chunks of audio for your own use. Several popular programs exist for this, and one free one is called Audacity. It is essentially a case of setting it up correctly in order to record the audio from your computer. Essentially, instead of using the audio microphone as the input, you can select the audio source or your computer's sound card. This is driven by the audio input button, and the options displayed will vary from computer to computer, depending on your machine's configuration.

More and more material is being streamed online, rather than just made available as pre-made audio files. In addition, with the changes that are sweeping the broadcasting industry, more and more radio and TV stations are streaming their programs online, realizing they need to compete in this new medium to remain relevant. Effectively, more people are opting to spend time in front of the internet, and in some demographics, traditional TV viewing is reducing. Streaming audio is not anything to be scared of, but rather opens new doors of opportunity in terms of what can now be technologically created.


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Audacity Audio Editor For Recording Streaming Audio on Website

When some folks want to record streaming audio for their websites, they get confused about where to start considering the multiplied options available today on the Internet. But the truth is that the simplest tool for such job is the Audacity Audio Editor.

Audacity Audio Editor does this by the following ways: Record Audio, Edit Audio and Convert Audio to Mp3 File Format all by itself. All you need is a computer microphone like the one in your laptop (some comes with a web cam, video and audio capabilities).

You can use this to create your own program and straightaway you have an info product for your website to share with your clients. You can also upload and edit a prerecorded audio as well as convert audios to Mp3 format. For instance if you want to hold a conference call, all you do is record the call first in a .wav format and convert it to Mp3. Audacity Audio Editor can do this for you with ease.

Audacity is useful for those who want to create information products. With this software you can just record yourself speaking on a topic or explaining how to use one of your affiliate products and paste on your website for people to download alongside with your products. You can also use it for creating a podcast, recording a book to audio version or even posting the audio version of your articles and more as your imagination can stretch.

But how do you share you audio with others on your website? You can upload your audio to your website hosting account for people to download from there. But this will take a lot of your hosting space.

This is where Audio Acrobat comes in handy to help. This program can host and stream your audios for you. Though this also means the visitors can only play it online. They don't have to download it first before playing it.

Generally, Audacity is a great program on its own. But when used alongside Audio Acrobat it becomes a wonderful and complete program for recording, hosting and streaming audios that can make your Internet business highly successful.

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