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Frequently Asked Questions
Audio Tool Box:
1. What is Audio Tool Box?
Audio Tool Box is a collection of specially selected
audio tools to support the needs of the newbie and
professional alike. Free training and technical
support are also available to suite your needs.
2. Do the tools have a
money back guarantee?
3. Can Audio Tool Box help
me include audio on my web site?
MP3 Sound Stream:
1. What is MP3
Sound Stream and how does it work?
Answer: MP3 Sound
Stream (mp3ss.exe) is a software
package that creates
high quality 56K
streaming audio
from MP3 or WAV files.
Select a file and it will create a
web page and Flash animations that stream the audio even
over a 56K modem just like the ones you see on this
page. It uses industry standard LAME compression to
produce very high quality output.
The program
uses flash technology which is estimated to be on 98% of
computers. It will reduce a standard MP3 file by over
50% with almost no loss of quality.
2. What is my
recording time limit?
Answer:
MP3 Sound Stream has a limit of 4.4 hours. This is more
than ample for 99% of application including Internet
radio shows and training.
3.
Does the program have any spy
ware, adware etc. Does it automatically connect to the
internet (phoning home etc)?
Answer:
Definitely not! Icons are supplied, and links are
supplied in the help to access this site with your
browser (if you click on them), but the program does not
itself connect to the internet.
4. Is the
program customizable?
Answer:
Yes. You can have bare output (streaming music with
nothing displayed on the screen) or you can have output
controlled by buttons. There are many buttons to choose
from in different styles and colours. Some of these
buttons are just plain stop and play buttons, but some
show elapsed times, have volume controls etc. See the
"Buttons" page.
5. Why is the
sound quality so high for 56K?
Answer:
It uses LAME compression, reservoir bits and careful
normalisation. We have found that at high bit rates we
can hardly tell the difference between one type of
compression and another, but at low bitrates needed for
streaming, LAME is by far the best. Reservoir bits are a
way of extending the size of some sound blocks and
greatly improves the quality.
We have
found that the Macromedia Flash5 creation program does
not use them, but surprisingly the Flash5 plugin is
capable of playing them! Normalisation ensures that even
if you start off with a loud input file, the output will
not have any clipping of the sound.
6. Can I
put streaming audio in an email?
This is a
common question and the answer is yes and no. You can
easily embed an audio in an email however with the
amount of spam and viruses around most people will have
their security settings on high. This means it will
block the audio button from being seen and consequently
the audio cannot be played.
Most
people use a link to a postcard, popup or web page to stream the
audio.
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