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What Does Audio Streaming Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Audio streaming is the practice of delivering real-time audio through a network connection. This type of data transmission requires certain protocols for handling the chronology of data packets or other transmission types, to provide the end-user with on-demand content. \n <\/p>\n

Techopedia Explains Audio Streaming<\/span><\/h2>\n

In general, audio streaming utilizes a buffering system and a secure data stream platform to allow end users to listen to full audio files without interruption. This type of data streaming also requires significant bandwidth. Experts point out that high-quality audio streaming is a somewhat recent phenomenon, and that in previous decades, a lot of major types of connections such as dial-up Internet or slower bandwidth offers would not accommodate uninterrupted audio streaming.<\/p>\n

Much of today’s audio streaming is done through sophisticated mobile devices made to handle higher amounts of data streaming, along with voice communications and more, with high-tech regional networking systems to support this data use. Equipped with ultra-modern microprocessors and new operating systems, today’s class of mobile devices are some of the most elaborate and high-powered devices available on today\u2019s consumer market, and accommodating good audio and video streaming is a major engineering component for dominant device makers. The provision of these data-intensive streaming services, and their popularity, is leading to frank discussions about the practical limitations of frequency spectrum, and bandwidth as a commodity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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