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CONVERTING
MUSIC FOR YOUR SITE
Putting music on your site and
converting for your own personal listening pleasure is a
reasonably simple process.
The first thing we need to do
is to determine what format you want your music.
There a basically three major
formats that people use to deliver music on the web and they
are MP3, Real Audio and Midi. You will also notice as you move
around the web a few other formats that are used such as
Quicktime, Windows media and wav files.
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MP3
MP3 is an audio file format.
Audio files can be quite large. An MP3 file is an audio file
that has been compressed (anywhere from 1/5th to 1/17th of its
original size) without any noticeable loss in sound quality.
That means a great sounding file, in a package small enough
that it can be downloaded and stored on your PC or web page.
Creating an MP3 file is as easy
as downloading some software such as MusicMatch
and then inserting a cd. It is then a process of what is
called ripping the cd or track you want and saving the new MP3
file to disk. Playing the MP3 file is just using the
same software. It is important
to observe any copyright laws.
Recording
from your personal music collection:
To record a
digital music file, put an audio CD in your CD-Rom drive. If
you are connected to the Internet, track titles, artist name
and album name of the CD in the CD-Rom will be automatically
entered into the recording fields using CDDB. Click the songs
you want to record, and that's it! You can also record from
vinyl and cassettes!
Internet
Downloads:
There are literally hundreds of thousands of songs available
for download on the Internet. When you download a song, it is
stored in your music library for easy access.
- Real
Audio and Video
- http://www.real.com/
Producing
Real Audio content is a little more complicated as it requires
you to first take the song and create a wav file on your
computer. You then need the encoder to convert the file.
Before you can put it on the web page you will also need to
create a ram file. The problem with programs like Real Audio
and Windows media player is that the downloads are so big and
they tend to take over your computer so I found lots of people
simply wouldn't listen anymore. Tutorial
from Realaudio.
One thing really good about Real Audio is a plugin that a
friend of mine uses that allows him to do white board
presentations. Click
here to watch one.
MIDI
Creating
midi files from scratch requires quite a lot of expertise and
some equipment. If you go to Home
Recording you
can learn all you need. There are a number of libraries for
midi files and you can insert them into your webpages quite
simply.
Streaming
Audio
Streaming audio is a method of delivering
audio, in real-time over the Internet or corporate
Intranets, with no download wait and no file to take up
space on your hard disk. Effectively what happens is as soon
as you request a streaming audio file - usually by clicking on
a button - the first 2 or 3 seconds of the file is downloaded
to your computer.
This immediately starts to play and as it
does, the server continues to download the rest of the file.
By the time the first few seconds of sound have been played,
the next few seconds are ready, hence creating a continuous
"stream".
Many of the programs available today that
allow you to stream the audio require that you compile the
audio file in the correct format first. This can be a very
time consuming task as you need to balance the quality to size
ration to allow streaming over modem connections. The software
we will be using will do all this automatically for you.
To listen to audio, you need a sound card
and speakers or headphones for your computer. After a somewhat
slow start, Web sites that are capable of delivering
relatively low-bandwidth audio content are appearing with
greater frequency, most likely in response to the increasing
number of multimedia-capable PCs hooking into the Internet.
Think of a bucket (the buffer) with a hole
in the bottom, being topped up with water (the data). As long
as there is water in the bucket, it will continue to pour out
of the hole, and will do this as long as there is water in the
bucket. Similarly, as long as there is data in the buffer, you
will continue to hear sound.
MP3
Sound Stream 1.27 (mp3ss)
is a software package that creates high
quality 56K streaming audio
from MP3 or WAV files. It uses industry standard LAME
compression to produce very high quality output.
The program uses flash 4 technology, which is estimated to be
on 98% of computers. It will reduce a standard MP3 file by
over 50% with almost no loss of quality. You can see more on
this product in this tutorial by clicking
here.
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