When I play a song I notice that Winamp appears to download the whole song to the temporary internet directory then play it from there - not quite 'streaming' as we might understand it!

I notice that when I feed the URL directly to WinAmp ("Play Location"), it begins playing instantly, as if it were truly streaming. I didn't check to see if it was storing a temporary copy of the file anywhere.

On the other hand, if I feed the URL to Internet Explorer, then it does download the whole file and then hands the file to WinAmp.


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Tony Fabris