Sound Files

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Sound File Formats | Creating Sound Files | Audio Players | Format Conversion | Adding Sound to Web Pages | Going Further

The growing use of versatile plug-ins to play a variety of sound formats makes it less necessary to know many technical details about which platforms play which sounds and how to convert between them. Nevertheless, those interested in more technical details of audio formats can do a search in Webopedia in E-Teacher's Glossary and get a list of specific web sites.

General sources of sound files on the Web may be found in the Yahoo listing of sound file archives and in the Sunsite Sound Archives. For MIDI files, try the Sources of Midi Files link at Harmony-Central.

Streaming audio players may be obtained from Real, Microsoft (Windows Media Player) and Apple (Quicktime 5). Comprehensive listings of streaming audio feeds are available at Realguide.