[JaxPM] [NON-PERL] FW: O'Reilly Releases "Designing Web Audio"

[JONES, WILLIAM C]

On the jacksonville-pm-list; Jax.PM'er "JONES, WILLIAM C" <wcjones at exchange.fccj.org> wrote -

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> From: 	Denise Olliffe
> Sent: 	Thursday, January 18, 2001 3:45 PM
> To: 	bill at fccj.org
> Subject: 	O'Reilly Releases "Designing Web Audio"
> 
> For immediate release
> Review copies available
> Contact:
> Denise Olliffe (707) 829-0515 ext 339 or deniseo at oreilly.com
> 
> 
> WEB AUDIO: THE NEXT WEB FRONTIER
> 
> 
> "In 1996, my brother yelled out the studio window and said 'Hey, you
> gotta come check this out!' I ran up the stairs and got my first earful
> of RealAudio streaming over the web," says Josh Beggs, coauthor of the
> newest O'Reilly release, "Designing Web Audio." "As artists and
> producers we knew it was going to be revolutionary. Here we were in
> start-up mode doing business on a shoestring dreaming about how we were
> going to pay for CD's and packaging to publish our music... and even
> more daunting find an audience... then kaboom... streaming audio over
> the Internet... It was like we had just been handed the keys to a
> global satellite broadcasting center. It was an epiphany moment."
> 
> Beggs' book, "Designing Web Audio" (O'Reilly, $34.95), explains how
> digital audio is encoded from microphone to hard disk; how sound is
> processed using compression and equalization; and how to turn audio
> source material into a great soundtrack using loops and ambient
> soundscapes. "Designing Web Audio" demystifies its subject with
> informative step-by-step techniques for encoding, compression, and
> streaming audio over the Web.
> 
> "I especially wanted to make sure the new techno tribe of digerati and
> programmer heads had the benefit of understanding the connection
> between sound and music and human interaction with technology and
> emotions," says Beggs. "Audio is such a compelling part of our lives
> and of how we define ourselves as humans belonging to a specific
> culture. Specifically, audio plays a huge role in making media more
> real and lifelike, especially our movie watching experience. Someday
> soon audio will enjoy a similar role on the web."
> 
> The easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on using the leading
> audio formats will make "Designing Web Audio" an invaluable resource
> for Web developers and individuals who want to stream their own music
> over the Web. "'Designing Web Audio' looks to the future when audio
> becomes a more integral part of the web not just a file format to be
> stored on a server and downloaded," explains Beggs. "Our book is
> written for the next era when surfing the web becomes much more like
> watching a movie. 'Designing Web Audio' is the only book written for
> the upcoming web golden age of rich media content."
> 
> "Designing Web Audio" is the most complete Internet audio guide on the
> market. It's loaded with informative real-world case studies and
> interviews with some of the world's leading audio and web producers. It
> using the most popular web audio formats. This book also includes a
> wealth of basic digital audio and sound wave theory, practical tips and
> techniques for recording and editing audio for the Web, and an
> invaluable buyer's guide to building an effective sound studio.
> 
> 
> An article by Josh Beggs, "Web Mastering: The Art of Optimizing Sound
> Files for Napster and the Internet" is available at:
> http://web.oreilly.com/news/webaudio_1200.html
> 
> Chapter 5, Introduction to Streaming Media, is available free online
> at:  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sound/chapter/ch05.html
> 
> For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
> index, author bio, and samples, see:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sound/
> 
> For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
> ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565923537.jpg
> 
> 
> Designing Web Audio
> By Josh Beggs & Dylan Thede
> January 2001
> ISBN 1-56592-353-7, 398 pages, $34.95, Includes CD-ROM
> order at oreilly.com
> 1-800-998-9938
> http://www.oreilly.com
> 
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> 
> O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All
> other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
> 
> 

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