| Understanding
Sound Files
Music
and Sound Files: On
some of the pages in this site, you will find a sound
console and/or sound file instructions that will
look like this:
This page contains a midi sound file (or .wav or .au--see "sound
file types" below for more information). Please
download Quicktime
Player if needed*Read
the following steps to learn how to use the console,
and go ahead and play around with the console
that is shown above**
1. Click to Adjust the sound of
the console
2. Click on the horizontal bars to STOP
the sound file,
then click on the arrow (not shown) to
PLAY the sound file.
3. Click and hold to slide the sound bar up
or down to "fast-forward" or "rewind."
4. Click and hold to rewind the sound. Click
and hold to skip ahead.
5. Click to view Quicktime information and
settings.
*If
you do not have Quicktime installed on your
computer, you will need to download it and install
it.
You can do this by going to the Quicktime
download page.
**Note: Your console may appear different on your
machine than the sample, but the basic features--"play" and "stop" will
work in a similar way.
Sound
File Types:
For Your Information: a description of basic Internet sound files (NOTE:
these are not necessarily used in this site)
- .AU: Sun
Audio Format.
- .MID,
.MIDI: Electronic Music Format (requires
plug-in for Netscape 2.0)
- .WAV: Windows
Audio
- .MPG: MP3s
or MPEGs-providing CD quality sound and requiring
audio plug-ins such as RealPlayer or Quicktime.
- .MOV: Quicktime
Audio-often used for Quicktime movies (requires Quicktime
plug-in).
- .AIFF: Macintosh
Audio Format
- .DCR: Shockwave
Audio (and Shockwave movies) requiring Shockwave
plug-in.
- .LA,
.LAM, .LMA: Netscape Streaming Audio. Netscape
4 and above handles this automatically.
- .MOD,
.RMF: Beatnik Audio Format. These require the
Beatnik plug-in, and once installed, Beatnik will
also handle .AIFF, .AU, .MID, and .WAV files automatically.
- .RAM,
.RPM: RealAudio (or RealVideo) requiring the
RealPlayer plug-in.
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