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RealAudio is a streaming audio server recently installed on DARKWING that enables campus computer users to listen to real-time or delayed audio streams via a Web browser.
RealAudio has the potential to be an extremely valuable educational tool. For example, instructors can record lectures and foreign-language exercises for students to play back at a later time, and musical examples and historical sound bites (such as excerpts from presentations or speeches) can be made more readily available.
We are encouraging the University community to develop audio materials for use on RealAudio. To learn how to create materials for the server using application, encoding, and Web development tools, browse the RealAudio product information page at http://www.realaudio.com/products/tools.html
To listen to a sample RealAudio stream, run your Web browser and open http://www.realaudio.com Download and install the RealAudio player and open pnm://darkwing.uoregon.edu/carol.ra That melodious sound you hear is the UO choir singing "Carol of the Bells," recorded by Jim Rusby of the School of Music. Links to other sample broadcasts are available on RealAudio's home page. If you have questions about creating materials for the RealAudio server, contact
Hans Kuhn (phone: 346-1714; e-mail: hak@darkwing).