With origins tracing back to 1995, QDesign is a provider of advanced audio compression technologies. Currently, QDesign offers three main products. These are QDX, the QDesign Music Codec and the QDesign MPEG ACM. QDX is designed for consumers who demand seamless access to music over a wide variety of devices, including portable players, digital assistants and cell phones. With QDX, all music is automatically encoded at CD quality.
[April 30, 2002]
Soundtrack Express (STX) bills itself as “the number one destination site to get music for media.” Their purpose is to provide businesses and consumers with the tools to find, preview, manage, and purchase digital media, all within an easy to use interface.
[February 12, 2002]
Total Recorder is a sound recording application that allows you to record from a variety of analog and digital sources, such as a sound card, other programs, live streaming files from the Internet, sound from games, CD’s, DVD’s and live conversations. [January 24, 2002
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Live365 bills itself as “The world's largest network of independently-produced audio content,” with access to over 30,000 active stations, originating from 70 countries and heard by listeners in over 100 countries. Programming is available in numerous genres, consisting of music, talk and news. [November 27, 2001]
"There's a revolution under way in the audio world, but it's just beginning to
intersect with the revolution called the Worldwide Web. All major browsers can
handle a variety of audio (and video) formats with ease, and including audio on a
Web site is theoretically no more complicated than including graphics.
Web audio is booming in certain areas such as Internet radio stations and online
music distribution, but few mainstream Web sites include sound. Why is the Web
still mainly a silent world? This article explains the basics of adding sound to a
Web site, discusses the pros and cons of various formats, and takes a look ahead
at some really world-shaking things to come."
"As I constantly explain to people in the computer audio mailing list that
I moderate MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is not an audio format,
and does not record sound in any way, shape or form. Instead, it allows you to
record and play back a set of instructions that a synthesizer, sound card, drum
machine or other electronic instrument can use to create sound. A MIDI file is a
list of actions to be performed, each action being a particular musical note
(or other event) played at a particular time. It's conceptually very similar
to a player piano."
Be sure to read the rest of Charlie Morris' article. He'll give you an ear full.
Other References
RealSystem
MP Digital Music Platform from RealNetworks
