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Characteristics of streaming and download

esquare4u.com offers music content alternatively for streaming or download. If you deside for download, you will be able to store a copy protected music file on your computer harddrive. Once a music track is stored on your hard disc, you can generally play it without any internet connection. The file size of a music file of 4 minutes is approximately 1 MB. Depending on your internet connection this procedure will take some minutes per track. The following list gives you a short overview about download duations:

DOWNLOAD RATES FOR A MUSIC FILE OF APPROX. 4 MINUTES :
 56 kB/s  (analog modem) ................. 2 min 26 sec
 64 kB/s  (ISDN) ......................... 2 min 08 sec
 128 kB/s (Dual ISDN)..................... 1 min 00 sec
 512 kB/s (ADSL) ......................... 0 min 15 sec
 768 kB/s (DSL) .......................... 0 min 10 sec
 1.5 MB/s (T1) ........................... 0 min 05 sec
 45 MB/s  (T3) ........................... 0 min 01 sec

If you deside for streaming, the music will not be stored on your computer. That means you have to be online whenever you want to stream a music track. The advantage of streaming is, that you do not have to wait until a file is completely downloaded. With streaming the music will play quite immediatly. In addition to that, the audio quality of the streaming content will match itself with the performance of your internet connection. Therefore the audioquality for fast internet connections might be better than with downloaded files. All in all, streaming is a good facility if you just want to pre-listen to a track before you want to deside to download it.

Streaming can be performed from any computer at any time if you have the key2audio^TM key code. Of course, you can stream AND download music files. Streaming does not effect your rights for download or the DRM of the downloaded tracks.

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