Audio Resources on the Web
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Cool Audio SitesC|Net's Audio Tutorial - This helpful audio tutorial presented by C|Net will help you to create original, small audio files that your web visitors can listen to. This tutorial covers the software you'll need, HTML codes, how to create the best sounding, smallest file sizes, and more.The Disney MIDI Page - Check out this archive of classic Disney theme songs from this web site. You may not be a fan of "It's a Small World", but who doesn't love the Tiki Room Song? Internet Underground Music Archives - Not only is this web site have some of the coolest graphics on the web, it also serves up cutting edge music. You can download and play sound clips from many independent recording artists you'd never hear of otherwise. You'll find everything from children's music, humor, jazz, new age, hip hop, to rave and reggae. This Web site is a great example of the web at its best. You can find information here that you never would have known about if it weren't for the Web. Multimedia File Formats on the Internet - This is a great reference for finding out about different file formats. In addition to descriptions about audio, video and graphic file formats, there are also guides to the type of software needed to play various multimedia file formats. For instance, did you know that a 1 minute .wav file would be about a megabyte in size? Something to think about! Old Time Radio - Who would have thought that the hottest, newest technology could bring you some of the best of the past? Check out Old Time Radio on the web and dive into nostalgia! This site is an excellent guide to serving up masses of information in a digestable manner. This is the ultimate guide to audio yesteryear. Don't miss the features on copyright information, links to audio shareware, pictures of old radios (and old radio stars!) along with an illustrated history of The Shadow. Get out the decoder rings, kids!
Audio Software
Cool Edit for Windows - Cool Edit enables you to "paint" with sound: tones, pieces of songs and voices and miscellaneous noises, sine waves and sawtooth waves, noise, or just pure silence. It also allows you to convert between various audio file formats. Gold Wave for Windows - Goldwave audio software features real time intelligent file editing, numerous effects and support for a wide variety of sound formats. Internet Phone - Talk to anyone in the world via a local telephone number! Sound impossible? It's not with Internet Phone, which is available for both Windows and Mac. You can use Internet Phone with Netscape or Internet Explorer. Real Audio - Great streaming audio, Robin! If you like your sounds smooth and fast-downloading, check out real audio.No more scratchy, "Are you there, Mr. Watson?" sound quality! Download the Real Audio plugin for your computer, and serve up fresh, streaming audio content from all over the world! Real Audio 3 offers radio broadcast quality sound at 28.8. You can download the software, install it and return to the Real Audio site to sample some of the best music, radio shows, news, information and entertainment sites taking advantage of the new sound quality. Sound App for the Mac - A very cool little software application that lets you translate various sounds files into other formats. Great for converting windows sounds to the Mac. Also makes nice system sounds for jazzing up your operating system. MidiWeb - offers technical information about MIDI files and MIDI interfaces, a library of downloadable MIDI files, FileCity offers a huge archive of MIDI files, including movie theme songs, rock music, holiday songs, and more. The MidiFarm also offers a library of downloadable MIDI files. WavCentral offers a huge archive of audio files that you can download. MovieWavs offers...you guessed it! Wav files from popular films. The Wav Place - offers movie audio clips, cartoon sounds, and music files. Download some tiny sound files from Microsoft, including a cat collar, doorbell, alarm clock and a lot more. | ||