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MP3 explained: a beginner's guide

Submitted by Geoff Nicholson on Thu, 03/18/1999 - 05:45.

MP3 has changed the way people listen to music on the Internet. It wasn't so long ago that the average pop song converted into a Wav file took hours to download on a 28.8Kbs modem connection and ate up around 50 megabytes of disc space. With the same song converted into an MP3 file, download time gets reduced dramatically to around one-tenth the original size while sounding just as good as before.

What's the difference between Wave, MIDI, MOD and MP3?

Submitted by admin on Wed, 03/10/1999 - 22:37.

By Kees van der Velden For sound you need an instrument and a 'musician' (in the broadest sense of these words). If you like to hear a piano sound, you need to have a piano and someone playing it. If you love the sound of breaking glass, the neighbours window will do fine as an instrument and their son, throwing a baseball very wide, could be the great musician to satisfy you.

A quick primer on converting WAV to MIDI and vice versa

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/02/1999 - 07:28.

Please note that this is an old article. For a list of WAV to MIDI converters that often do the job, please check out our new WAV-MIDI page.

MP3 Tutorial: Changing MP3 to WAV

Submitted by Geoff Nicholson on Thu, 01/28/1999 - 22:06.

One common issue facing people when they discover the MP3 format is how to convert the MP3 format into WAV format.

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