The Next Generation and Plugs for the Web Vol. Netscape 2.0 and its plug-ins are the big news on the Net these days.
All indications are for support of other platforms in the very near future.
RealAudio provides highly compressed, streamed audio over Internet connections of 14.4Kbps or faster. The good news is that 2.0 is supposed to sound better, and there is already a large number of Websites that offer a wide variety of RealAudio 2.0 sound files . Best of all, they start playing almost immediately after you click on them. ToolVox By Voxware . Another audio technology for the Web, the ToolVox plug-in allows the immediate playback of sound files, much like RealAudio.