Re: echovirus mp3

[Sean <sean_@mindspring.com>]

Are we talking about a specific verion of netscape for a specific platform?
 If not, I can vouch for netscape 3.01 win32's ability to download mp3s
with no problems whatsoever.


At 09:33 PM 2/6/99 -0500, someone wrote:
>>There are other players out there capable of playing MP3 files, such as
>>Windows Media Player...  Or is this more of a proprietary Java-esque 
>issue?
>
>It's not a play issue, it's a download issue.  Netscape downloads mp3s in
>7 bit mode, basically ASCII.  However, mp3s are binary files, and need to
>be downloaded in 8 bit mode.  Now you can download ASCII with an 8 bit
>connection, easy, but if you try the other way around, you get crap.