Advantages of AudioNET® over e-mail

The main reasons to use AudioNET® instead of e-mail for delivery of audio files are sound quality, speed, security and certainty.

Sound quality

Your e-mail program packages up any attachment that you send with a whole lot of extra information that tells the Internet that this attachment belongs to this e-mail. This is because it is very unlikely that your e-mail and attachment will travel along the same Internet path to their destination. This extra address information doubles the size of the attached file. Both the e-mail and the attachment are then sent along a lane of the Internet (the SMPT e-mail port), which most Internet service providers (ISPs) compress to allow faster distribution of e-mails. The attachment may pass through various ISPs and thus receive multiple compressions. It is then expanded at the receiving ISP before being downloaded by the receiver. The result of these various compressions can lead to anomalies being introduced into the sound of the audio file.

AudioNET® maintains first generation file quality, with no manipulation of the original audio file. Every receiver is guaranteed to receive the exact file you send.

Speed

As previously mentioned e-mail doubles the size of the attached file, so it takes twice as long to upload and download. E-mail mailboxes have size limits that may require multiple files to be sent via multiple e-mails. E-mails are delivered to the receiver on a first come first served basis. This means your e-mails with audio attachments may be held up behind other e-mails, or may be frustrating the receiver as your attachments (possibly not needed straight away), may be slowing down other plain text e-mails required urgently.

AudioNET®'s unique file addressing protocol does not increase the size of your audio files so they download in half the time of e-mail attachments. AudioNET® spots travel via the main ports of the Internet and therefore don't get caught up in the congestion of the e-mail ports.

Plus AudioNET® spots travel in a direct route from your production studio to the AudioNET® server.

Security

To protect against viruses most e-mail servers restrict access to attachments over a certain size, or even quarantine them or delay their delivery until after normal business hours. Also, when you e-mail an audio spot, it can be forwarded on without your knowledge or consent.

AudioNET® does not send its audio as e-mail attachments. Therefore AudioNET® deliveries do not trigger any e-mail security problems. AudioNET® also uses the same online security platforms as most banks, providing a SSL secure connection direct to the AudioNET® server. This means no one has access to the audio or information you send to AudioNET® unless you authorise it.

Certainty

Because of the reasons outlined in the sections above, you can never really be certain someone has received an audio file you've sent them by e-mail. At best, e-mail gives you the option to ask the receiver to send a read reply receipt. This receipt request can be ignored by the receiver of the e-mail and only tells you when the receiver looked at the text of your e-mail and has no reference to when or if they opened the attached audio file(s).

AudioNET® gives you a date and time stamp of the exact time that each audio file is accessed by each receiver.

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