Basic Information About Sound Files

So start with some audio formats, which might be helpful in adding audio features in my web pages.

The two most widely supported file formats for sound files are MIDI and WAV. As with graphic files, you'll want to keep the size of the file as small as possible while maintaining quality.

The differences between WAV and MIDI are that MIDI files are generally a great deal smaller, however, many types of audio, such as speech, don't work well as MIDI files. MIDI is a good file format for music. A one minute WAV file can be as large as 1MB in size, while a 1 minute MIDI file can be less than 25K. Using software convertors, it may be possible to resample WAV files to reduce their file size.

Some helpful and interesting links are -

1. The Wav Place - offers movie audio clips, cartoon sounds, and music files
2. MidiWeb - offers technical information about MIDI files and MIDI interfaces, a library of download able MIDI files.
3. FileCity offers a huge archive of MIDI files, including movie theme songs, rock music, holiday songs, and more.
4. MidiFarmalso offers a library of downloadable MIDI files.
5. WavCentral offers a huge archive of audio files that you can download.
6. MovieWavs offers...you guessed it! Wav files from popular films.

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