[ILUG] Audio on website

[Gerard Keating]

Kevin,

Depends on your target audience, an MP3 on the site will be playable by
95% of machines*** without the need for your website visitor having to
load any software. The use of real player requires your visitor to have
loaded real player.



*** Assumes web site visitor has sound card and speakers.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Philp [mailto:kevin at cybercolloids.net] 
Sent: 01 November 2004 12:06
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] Audio on website

I am doing some web design work for a charity... so keeping costs down
is a 
top priority! The website needs to include some short spoken audio clips
that 
I will need to acquire while out and about...ie no computer available.
What I 
would like to know is:

1. What is the cheapest way of acquiring reasonable quality spoken audio
clips 
that I can then feed into my Linux workstation?

2. Any recommendations on software to use to cut the clips up and export
them 
into a format I can use on the web?

3. Any recommendations on what audio format to use? Someone has already
said 
Real audio due to the availability of crossplatform plugins and high 
compresson.... but this is new territory for me.

Kevin.
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