caryl's Page - Sounds !

So Now you have your web page built, or have an internet chat program. All it needs now is some sound...

Below is a short description of some of the file formats.

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M=Movies and/or TV Sounds / C=Comedy / S=Sound Effects / G=Games /*=music / U=Unknown content

Web Site	File Format	Theme
-A-	Format	Theme
Alternating Currents MIDI Homepage	MIDI	M/*
-B-	Format	Theme
-C-	Format	Theme
Cafe Hot Sounds	wav	M/C/S
Catch-A-Wav	wav	M
Classical MIDI Archive by PRS	MIDI	*
Clay's Sound Emporium	wav	M/C
CPR's MIDI Archives	MIDI	M/*
Cyberspace Place	MIDI	*
-D-	Format	Theme
Dorsola's MIDI Collection	MIDI/MOD	*
Doug's tub O'Sounds	wav / MIDI	C/S
-E-	Format	Theme
Eagle-M's Music Place	MIDI	U
Eagle-M's Rock'N'Roll Oldies		Links
-F-	Format	Theme
Frogstar	wav / MP3	M/C/*/S
-G-	Format	Theme
Giggy's Midi Page	MIDI	*
-H-	Format	Theme
Hackers - Download Central	wav	M/*
-I-	Format	Theme
ID Logic - Classical MIDI Archives	MIDI	*
Index of Sounds by format	wav / MIDI / au & more	M/S/C/*
Insane Wavs	wav	M/C
The Internet Piano Page **	MIDI	*
IRC Wavs	wav	M/S/C/*
-J-	Format	Theme
Jazzy Jukebox	MIDI	*
-K-	Format	Theme
-L-	Format	Theme
-M-	Format	Theme
MARK'S - The Soundtrack of Our Lives	MIDI	*
The Meek's Homepage	wav / MIDI	M/S/*
Michael's Home Turf	wav / MIDI	M/S/C/*
Midi & Stars Warehouse	MIDI	M/*
MIDI Jazz Network	MIDI	*
Midi Madness	MIDI	*
Midi Vault	MIDI	M/G/*
MIDI World	MIDI	*
Mike's Midi Page	MIDI	M/*
Momp's World of Blues and Jazz !	Links	*
-N-	Format	Theme
-O-	Format	Theme
The "Only The Best" MIDI Site	MIDI	*
-P-	Format	Theme
-R-	Format	Theme
Realms Of Fantasy	wav	-adult- M/*
Rebel's Midi Extravaganza	MIDI	*
Roget's Playground - Songs	wav / aif	*
-S-	Format	Theme
SoundAmerica	wav	M/C/*
Star2Nite's Wavs & Links	wav	S/C
-T-	Format	Theme
Tracey's Midi Place	MIDI	M/*
-U-	Format	Theme
-V-	Format	Theme
Vick's Tavern	MIDI	*
-W-	Format	Theme
The Wanderer - Rock'N Oldies very slow but great!	ra	*
Wav Central	wav	M/S
WavList.com	wav	M/C/S
The Wav Surfer Sound Site	wav / MIDI	M/S
Wave Theme Songs Home Page	MP3	M
-Y-	Format	Theme
YASKAWA Moclin's MIDI Data Collection - classical	MIDI	*
-Z-	Format	Theme
Zack's Real Audio Page	ra	C/*

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AT&T test labs.. At this page you can type in any words you want on a form and their program will return those words to you as a sound file using synthesized speech technology. Let your imagination run wild at AT&T Research

Sound Formats

WAVE (.wav) - Format native to Windows. WAVE is not "real-time" and each 30-second clip will require 4-5 minuted download time through a 28.8k modem. The sound quality is comparable to an FM radio station heard through mono speakers. Sounds in .wav format are the most prevalent on IRC Internet Chat and also used on web sites. Great for sound effects and sound bites.

MIDI is a acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, a standard method for electronic musical equipment to pass messages to each other. MP3. This lets you take a CD quality sound file and compress it into a couple of MB. This is a great way to distribute music on the net.
Instead of sending sounds, MIDI files activate local music synthesizer programs on your computer. Widely used by musicians, MIDI is supported by recent versions of Apple's QuickTime (2.5 and higher) through a "virtual synthesizer" of electronic instruments. This file format is also widely used in web sites.

MP3 - an audio compression format that are CD-quality (stereo,44khz,16bit). A good ratio is: 1 minute = 1 MB. Therefore, instead of a WAV file that is 50MBs (at CD quality, 16bit,stereo,44khz), you have a MP3 file that is 4MBs, which makes it realistically downloadable. file extension is .wav

RealAudio (.ra/.ram) - RealAudio is a streaming "real-time" format that starts to play in a few seconds after selection. In contrast, other formats require several minutes of download time before the audio can play. RealAudio runs on Mac, Windows and UNIX systems. If you don't have a RealAudio player yet, you can get free from the Real Networks site.

AIFF (.aiff) - Format native to Macintosh, and used extensively in the audio industry. AIFF is not "real-time" and each 30-second clip will require about 4-5 minutes to download through a 28.8k modem. The The sound quality is comparable to an FM radio station heard through a mono speaker. This format is also supported by many UNIX systems.

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