One of the most comprehensive sound links on the Web is sponsored by Oxford University at archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/audio.html (formerly www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/audio.html). An extensive Webring index, called Sound-Ring, at sr.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=sr;id=33;prev5, has links to hundreds of music sites. You can find a good set of basic FAQs on sound file formats at home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/audio.html. You'll also find a good discussion of audio formats in Zap's MUSIC-ON-THE-NET Tutorial at www.lysator.liu.se/~zap/tutorial/formats.html.
You can take a comprehensive tutorial on MIDI music and file formats by Jim Heckroth by connecting to kingfisher.cms.shu.ac.uk/midi/main_p.htm. You'll find lots of links to MIDI information and sample MIDI files and products at the MidiWebTM site, www.midiweb.com. Can your sound card make a difference in sound quality? You can compare sound quality at the Wavetable sound card test drive site, pubweb.nwu.edu/~jll544/sndsmpl.html. (This Web site is currently unavailable--3/2/2000.)
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