Play music through Skype

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri May 27 00:04:29 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 08:19 -0400, Douglas S. Saylor wrote: 
> I had one of them AH-HA! moments & figured it out after reading links
> provided. Thanks a BUNCH. Unfortunately my Netbook can't handle
> switching back & forth the recording input ...get ALL kinds of
> stuttering after I switch back to microphone. But I learned, so it's a
> good thing! Thanks again! 

Since it's a known fact that the Internet is a series of tubes, what you
are trying to do, via Skype, will cost someone else some bandwidth.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-skype-does-and-doesn-8217t-work/1051?tag=mantle_skin;content

According to this article, Skype is more of a peer-to-peer network
application, than a service supplied by a server farm dedicated to
handling your call. This is a good read, and explains what Ballmer paid
for. <chuckles> Ric

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