Original Music

Listen to these cool audio sounds.
Press "Load" to get the audio file (183 kb - It's really worth the wait.) After the file is loaded press "Play" to hear the audio. If you don't see the Java control buttons below, your browser may not be in support of Java.

Composed by Mike McRoberts. (C) Copyright 1985 Raceline Productions by wcm Solutions, Inc.

The problem with audio on the net is simply bandwith. Currently Java only supports the AU audio format sampled at 8,000 hz in monoaural. This is just about the audio quality of a standard telephone.

The process of getting a good audio master recording squeezed into a Java audio file requires a great deal of experience in Audio mixing and several pieces of good audio software in order to properly equalize, sample and filter the recording so that it sounds reasonably good when played on-line in Java.

An additional difficulty is the relatively slow download time required of audio files. (You thought large, hi-res graphics was slow.) At 28.8 kbs modem speed, it requires about one minute of download for each 30 seconds of play time.