Players, FAQs and other audio resources

For those of you running Netscape v1.1 or later on a Windows machine, the easiest way to play AU files is internally with the Netscape Audio Player. For MPEGs, and other platforms and web browsers, here are some player applications that are available. If you know of a good one that we don't have listed, email our staff boffin with the information.

Macintosh

SoundMachine AU player
MPEG-CD

Unix

Most sound-capable X-flavor workstations have native AU playback clients
MPEG utilities for UNIX

Windows

Wham AU player
XingSound MPEG player




For further reading

If you're interested in audio topics, especially in the context of multimedia and networks, here are some helpful resources:

World of Audio Explanations and demonstrations of various digital audio formats

MPEG FAQ Everything you ever wanted to know about MPEG compression

RealAudio Extremely compressed audio format for realtime network service - we're still not sold on it for music, though

rec.audio.pro Newsgroup dedicated to professional audio topics

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