Many of these applications offer to set themselves up as
browser-helper applications. You might feature some of these links at the bottom of pages with MP3 content,
so users who are new to MP3 can get a leg up.
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Common MP3 Players
Player Software URL
Audion (Mac only) www.panic.com/audion
iTunes www.apple.com/itunes
QuickTime Player www.apple.com/quicktime
Real Player www.real.com
Winamp (Windows only) www.winamp.com
Windows Media Player www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmediadownload (Windows)
www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/
mac/download/misc/winmp_osx.xml&secid=80&ssid=8&flgnosysreq=
True (Mac)
Audion (Macintosh) Winamp (Windows)
Providing users with a link to MP3.com (www.mp3.com) is another way to offer them a great
selection of players.
Encoding MP3
The most common MP3 files are downloadable music files. These files aim for CD quality and so are
recorded with a bit rate of 128 Kbps. This works out to a little less than 1MB per minute for a stereo, 44.1
kHz file, which is too heavy to move quickly on today??™s Web. You can encode an MP3 using a variety of bit
rates, however. Lower bit rates mean lower quality, but even at 16 Kbps, speech sounds pretty good, and
the 60K per minute bulk of a mono file will be music to your ears.
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