SOUND
SITES
FindSounds.com
A search engine for sound effects.
The Ogg Vorbis CODEC project
Home page for Ogg Vorbis, "a fully Open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality ... audio and music," a possible replacement for MP3 compression.
ARTICLES
Booking on Down the Road
Audible.com will distribute audio versions of various written content - books, newspapers, lectures - through its website. (2/10/2000 at 15 Seconds)
Copyrighted Music and Internet Publishing
A guide to the hoops you'll have to jump through in order to use someone else's song (especially a famous one) in conjunction with your website. Covers both the types of copyright involved and the agencies to deal with. (12/24/1999 at Web Review)
Creating Great Audio for the Web
How to create audio presentations for your website, from the hardware to use in recording to compression to actually serving the content. (8/11/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
CSS2 Aural Properties: Fact or Fiction?
Putting pauses in pages that provide sounds via CSS2. (4/27/2001 at Web Review)
Embedding Sound with Flash, Part I: The Basics
Basic information on using Flash to stream sound over the web. (4/9/2001 at WebReference.com)
Embedding Sound with Flash, Part II: Playing Variations
Advanced tricks you can play, when using the FlashSound JavaScript API: playing multiple tracks, making transitions, looping sounds, etc. (4/23/2001 at WebReference.com)
Flash - Beyond Animation 2
How to embed audio (using MP3) in Flash files (.swf). (3/1/2001 at WPDFD)
How Voice Processing Will Change the Web
An examination of the problems involved in making a visual website available aurally (via telephone and other voice-based devices), and a look at several voice-based environments: Microsoft's Web Telephone Engine, WAP, and VoiceXML. (9/15/2000 at Web Review)
Make Web Music Better With Beatnik
How to build MIDI files using Beatnik, and play the music with Javascript and Flash. (3/13/2001 at builder.com)
MP3 and Beyond
A history of MP3, a look at how it works, and prospects for the multimedia formats which may replace it soon. (9/26/2000 at ZDNet Developer)
MP3 Overview
A long article detailing the history (and possible future) of the MP3 format, links to MP3 players, and more. (7/27/2000 at WebMonkey)
Next Wave of the Web: Streaming Media Service Providers - Page 10
What's involved in hosting streaming media, using dedicated Streaming Media Networks, and using MBONE. (3/26/2001 at WDVL)
Setting up an Audio Recording Workstation
Information on the theory, hardware, and software you'll need to record audio on your computer. (3/13/2001 at WebMonkey)
Shrinking Streams to Grow Bigger
Developing audio-compression technology will allow Internet broadcasters to reduce their bandwidth costs while maintaining sound quality; leaving more money for paying content licensing fees. (11/23/2000 at Wired News)
Sonify Your Sites with Flash
Using the FlashSound JavaScript API, developed by sonify.org, to embed interactive sounds in web pages. (4/6/2001 at Web Review)
Squeezing Better Quality Into Your Audio
How to use dynamic processing to get rid of jumps in dynamic range - the difference in volume between the loudest and softest points in your audio. (4/6/2001 at Web Review)
Start-ups Dream of a Web That Talks
A handful of start-ups want to bring the Web to people not on the Web by having computers read information to them over telephones. (2/8/2000 at News.com)
Streaming Audio Tutorial
A comprehensive look at providing streaming audio online. (11/2/2000 at WebMonkey)
Streaming Media With Linux
How to play, produce, and broadcast audio on Linux machines, in a variety of formats. (3/23/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Streaming Media With Linux, Part 2
Setting up RealServer or Icecast to serve streaming content from Linux. (3/30/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Streaming MP3 Server Guide
How to set up a streaming MP3 server using Linux. (12/22/2000 at LinuxLookup.com)
The Demise of MP3 Has Arrived
A group of open-source hackers are developing Ogg Vorbis, an audio compression format which they say will sound and compress better than MP3. The creators of the MP3 format plan to start charging for its use. (8/18/2000 at ZDNet Developer)
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