Web Audio

Maximizing audio performance on the web

Preparing Audio for the web 

Since raw Digital Audio stored as a computer file is very large (e.g. approximately 10MB for each minute of CD quality stereo music ) new ways of working with it had to be developed so it could be transfered over the limited bandwidth of the Internet. To solve the problem 2 approaches have been combined:

  1. Encoding -  reducing the size of an audio file by removing information not
    generally heard by the human ear (sometimes also called compression).
  2. Streaming  - delivering the file to your computer in the order it is heard, 
    meaning just the beginning of the file needs to be received by your computer 
    before it starts to play. While the file plays it continues to buffer the rest of 
    the file.
  There are several encoders available the most popular being Windows Media and Real.  
   
  • audio material can be given to us in any form, analog tape, digital tape, CD etc. We can then convert and encode it for Windows Media or Real Audio
  • depending on where your website is hosted one format may be better than another.
  • we can also do any web page design/editing you require to place the audio on your web site.


For more information about Encoding please visit the following:

 

 
 
   

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