How Does Streaming Radio Work?
Method The staggering success of streaming media is fairly recent, but the idea behind it is an old one. Like sound waves carry information which the human brain then decodes in a comprehensible way, the information here is transmitted to an electronic device via a cable, satellite signal or radio waves. In this case, it is the electronic apparatus which decodes and then displays the information. In streaming audio, the information comes in a stream of data from a server. The decoder is a stand-alone device, either a player or a plug-in, that operates as part of the web browser. The server, the information and the decoder work in conjunction to allow people to listen to live or pre-recorded broadcasts. Streaming Files Streaming audio files start out as compact and efficient, but initially these are very large files known as raw files. These are digital files and they have not been compressed in any way, hence the quality is very good. The compression process that is needed to make an o
