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Sound Files are:
- Usually large and loads slowly
- Need a sound card and speakers to hear (not Mac)
- Annoying if loads with page
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Sound File Formats | Characteristics |
| MIDI-Musical Instrument Digital Interface |
- synthesized music-keyboard
- small file size
- easy to learn and use
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| AIFF-Audio Interchange File Format
| - recorded sound
- common on Macintosh computers and usable on others
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| AU - Audio File Format | - Acceptable sound
- used by all browsers
- read by computers
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WAV - Windows Audio
| - Good sound quality
- used by Windows
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| MP3-Multimedia Protocol v.3 | - near cd sound quality
- used through browser plug-ins
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Link to a Wave files - APPLAUDE.WAV
[wav sound] Applude, 224K<a href="sounds/applaude.wav" alt="[sound] Applude, 224K"> |