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Why do my audio samples not play straight away? |
The audio samples on the site are not set to auto-start and this allows you to control the start/pause etc. via the player buttons. However, an additional reason may be your download speed of the audio file and this may mean that the player 'image' is displayed before the audio file is fully available. To keep this to a minimum, jazzorg limits samples to about a minute in length, which, for an optimum quality mp3 compressed file, gives a file size of about 1Mb.
To download 1Mb takes nominally:
- Approximately 2.5 minutes on a 56KB/s modem connection.(dial-up)
- Approximately 15 seconds on a 512KB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 7.5 seconds on a 1MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 3.3 seconds on a 2MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 0.5 seconds on an 8MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
These times vary, depending upon the available bandwith and contention, supplied by your ISP, and packet errors, together with how busy the web servers are. You can multiply up the times for downloads of full versions of items on the site. The file size is shown at the download item (see 'How long will it take for me to download a full item file?')
The above values are only nominal. An informative source on speeds and other cable modem issues is at this link.
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