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18th May 2004 - Link Blog

Random access to Web audio. Standard MP3s can be randomly accessed using HTTP’s range header—without any extra server software.

Posted 18th May 2004 at 10:03 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 18th May 2004.

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