Audio files created for the web come in different
file formats and are easy to add to your web pages....
Here is a brief summary of the different
types of files...
I tend to use MIDI files to add background music as they are the most compressed..
MIDI
Musical Instrument Device Interface
Smallest type of file to play...
Actual sound depends on how your sound card plays the midi...
Extension - .mid or .midi
WAV files
Wav files contain a recording of a song..
The song sounds the same regardless of where it is played
The sound file is much larger....
Extension .wav
RA
REAL AUDIO
RealAudio (RA) files are a highly compressed type of file
designed especially to be downloaded from the Internet..
Extension .au
Midi files work well for music but can't produce any special sound affects and voices...
For these you use .wav files....
Adding them into your document is quite easy....

The oldest and simplest method to adding a sound is to use META REFRESH in the head section of your document....
This is added in the head section of your document after the title...
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5; URL=cheers.mid">
Again as always spacing and punctuation must be precise...
You can come here and copy the code and then just paste
(I had this natural tendency
to put quotations in front of the sound file
as "cheers.mid" instead of cheers.mid"....
just in case you might too....)

There are of course many places on the web to pick up sound...
Use any search engine on the web to find these...
or you can check out the hot sites I have in a table below...
To save them to your files all you do is hit on the box
as they are playing and press on the right button of your mouse....
it will then save to your hard drive...EASY....


AUDIO BROWSER
SOUND FILES COLLECTION
Public Domain Sounds
for your web pages
LYCOS PICTURES
AND SOUND GALLERY
Great for looking for special sounds
for your web pages
VALKORN'S HIGH QUALITY
BIG BAND SOUNDS
I like this site!
O.k. so all midi music sounds
just a little cheesy...but this is the best of the cheese...LOL
SOUND AMERICA
Over 25,800 sounds
Now here is my small sound collection
for your perusal...
You can play them and practice saving
by hitting the right button on your mouse
as they are playing...HAVE FUN, EH..
AND I LOVE HER BABY ELEPHANT WALK
THEME FROM CHEERS CARRY THAT WEIGHT
EVERYBODY DANCE(C&C) JAMMIN'
GHOSTBUSTER'S THEME HERE COMES THE SUN
LOONEYTUNE THEME SOCK HOP MUSIC
TWIN PEAKS MIDI UNDER THE SEA
X FILES THEME JAMMIN'
JAZZ ELEVATOR TIME WARP
COOL JAZZ FUR ELISE
DICK VAN DYKE THEME FAST CONT. JAZZ
FREAKY SCARY STUFF GROWN NAKED MAN..
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