Multimedia on the web has come a long way since 1995 when I first began exploring this topic. The main question to ask is how necessary is sound to a particular website. There are lots of options, and as always, some are more appropriate than others.

My client, Audio Book Club.com, needs 5:00 minute excerpts from audio cassettes encoded as both RealAudio and Windows Media streaming audio files. I equalize and record the excerpts as mono 16-bit 44.1khz .wav files and then encode the streaming audio files. For them, I deliver data cd's containing the source .wav files, the RealAudio and Windows Media files cross referenced to their ISBN numbers ready to upload to their servers.

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