Furthermore, what happens when I'm playing my _William Shattner Sings_ on my computer and it copies portions of the CD to memory which could be swap space on my hard-drive?
Chances are this doesn't actually happen. When you stick a CD in your computer and play it using WinAmp or something similar, the audio passes through a cable connecting your CD-ROM drive directly to your sound card. The only thing your CD player app does is to control which tracks are played, in what order, etc. This is why WinAmp's equalizer and audio processing plugins don't work with CDs.
However, if you're using something like Easy CD-DA Extractor, which is a ripping/encoding app with a player built in, then the audio is being read into RAM and/or your swap file.
That number probably includes the typical disk space requirements for cached pages and images. People have different philosophies about cache size, but a cached image is going to take up just as much disk space with Mozilla as it is with IE, or with any other browser.
Would you run that by me again? Is this a new "misfeature" I just encoded a 150 kbps "Corporate LAN" video stream yesterday on a month old copy of their free encoder... It goes up to 200 kbps for Cable Modem.
I think you're probably talking about RealProducer G2, which is for encoding RealAudio and RealVideo content. IIRC, there are no quality restrictions on the free version of RealProducer. RealJukebox is a different product; it's used for MP3s, and the free version will only encode at up to 96 kbps. RealJukebox Plus will do up to 320 kbps.
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However, if you're using something like Easy CD-DA Extractor, which is a ripping/encoding app with a player built in, then the audio is being read into RAM and/or your swap file.
That number probably includes the typical disk space requirements for cached pages and images. People have different philosophies about cache size, but a cached image is going to take up just as much disk space with Mozilla as it is with IE, or with any other browser.