I think the opinion above is, uhm, skewed, delicately speaking. The G2 codec (developed by Dolby Labs and licensed by RealNetworks) is way more efficient than MP3. The end results for audio material you get actually depends alot on experience of the folks using the encoder. As far as quality of streams, their RTSP protocol is a vast improv over PNM they used in 5.0 as well as plain ol' HTTP. I would invite folks to check out music programming at www.wiremusix.com . They also post a Song Of The Day llink at beenz.com music page.
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I think the opinion above is, uhm, skewed, delicately speaking. The G2 codec (developed by Dolby Labs and licensed by RealNetworks) is way more efficient than MP3. The end results for audio material you get actually depends alot on experience of the folks using the encoder. As far as quality of streams, their RTSP protocol is a vast improv over PNM they used in 5.0 as well as plain ol' HTTP. I would invite folks to check out music programming at www.wiremusix.com . They also post a Song Of The Day llink at beenz.com music page.