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 About  Russian  Songs

All songs (and other audio materials) presented at Davar Web Site are in the Real Audio format.  This format allows practically immediate playback without waiting for the entire audio file to get downloaded.  A free player program is always readily available for download.  A slight loss of quality associated with the Real Audio compression is insignificant for audio files of this site — most of them are of quite a moderate audio quality anyway — it is their content that is interesting in them.

To enable audio playback download a free Real Player to the root directory of drive C:\ and then install it (run the downloaded file [Start]—{Run}—C:\file_name.EXE).  Downloaded file can be deleted after that.

Two playback modes are available.  Save & play downloads audio file from a server (it takes some time) and then plays it locally (without interrupts).  Real play plays audio file directly from the server (almost no initial waiting, but playback interrupts are possible if connection is not fast enough).

Songs can be easily saved for later local playback by a Real Player.  There are 3 ways to save a audio file:

1. Hold down [Shift] key and click Save & play in the song list to download song into a specified file without a playback.  System will prompt for a file location and name.

2. Click Save & play in the song list to download audio file and play it locally right away.  Downloaded file will be saved in the WINDOWS\TEMP directory with its original name.

3. If you have a  Real Player Plus, click Real play in the song list and push a Record button on Real Player (enter a file name when prompted).

To play downloaded song locally open a Real Player window and then open a audio file.  More convenient is a local song navigation which is available in the RUSSIAN.EXE download file.  The easiest way to get local navigation is to save this file in the root of drive C:  and to execute it ([Start]—{Run}—C:\RUSSIAN.EXE).  This will create the necessary directory structure (starting with C:\DAVAR). 

Please note, that song RA files should be downloaded individually as it is described above after the execution of RUSSIAN.EXE which will create the directory necessary for functioning of local playback.  When downloading songs, save each song in the appropriate directory C:\DAVAR\RUSSIAN\SONGS\author.  After songs are downloaded, enter C:\DAVAR\RUSSIAN\SONGS\SONG$.HTM in the Location field of your browser to get to the top local page of local song playback.  It would be a good idea to bookmark this page and place it in the personal toolbar to get a quick access to local song playback.

Another way to play individual downloaded audio files locally is to enter site locally (i.e.  through C:\DAVAR\index.htmnot through www.davar.net, and then click corresponding Save & play link.  This won't work, however, with Real Audio song lists which require different formats for local and remote playback.

Some texts may contain Local play links which will be active only if the corresponding audio file is already downloaded and placed in the proper position within DAVAR directory structure (in the same directory where text with the link is located).

If it is preferable to use different location for audio files, corresponding changes should be made in affected HTM and RAM files.


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