--- Forwarded Message from "Jan Enright" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: RE: #7126.1 French in Action audio on intranet? (!)
>Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:57:53 -0600
>Thread-Topic: #7126.1 French in Action audio on intranet? (!)
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>From: "Jan Enright" <[log in to unmask]>
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I've hesitated to jump into this discussion re audio files until we had a
test period, and it worked. The year is almost over, and we have had great
success with converting audio files, using professor's personal tapes,
etc., over a restricted network. We have used Sound Sampler (a bargain of
a shareware program) http://www.provide.net/~moorepower/ahg/sndsampler/ to
digitize the tapes (using a simple little "boom box" from AV, converted
them to MP3s with iTunes on a Mac, then Andromedia (another bargain)
http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda to host the files on our Windows 2000
server. All students on our campus can access the files for their classes
in our labs, but they are restricted off the campus. It is extremely easy
to move the files on and off of the audio file web page when classes are
over.
je
Jan Enright
Lab Services Coordinator, ITS
Colorado College
14 East Cache La Poudre
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
719.389.6159
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>Subject: Re: #7126 French in Action audio on intranet?
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> Is anyone serving up the French in Action audio (now available as MP3s
on CD)
> via an Intranet to their students? I have just gotten a request to do
this for
> the fall, but it is not a service I have implemented to offer yet. I've
just
> ordered the CDs and already have a Mac G3 OS X Jaguar server. Can anyone
give
> me some set-up pointers before I need to start mucking around to figure
it out
> on my own?
Audio CDs (CD-A) can be ripped with QuickTime Player Pro (~$30 from
Apple).
For more flexibility, you can get a version of Cleaner Mac 6 from Discreet
(you can probably get an educational price from the right vendor), which
allows batching and if you want, outputting multiple quality levels. You
need to decide on how you want to compress the audio (what codec, etc.),
and
you'll want to do the production on a non-server computer. The codec(s)
decision will depend on the slowest link you need to serve, but again, you
can have multiple versions. If you use QuickTime, the multiple versions
even be automatically served, because of capabilities built into QuickTime
(and when you set your web coding correctly). If you use QuickTime
Streaming Server (part of OSX server) to serve your movies, you need to
hint
your movies (easy to do). Plus you'll want reference movies (actually
text
files that are the links that point to the actual QT movies). If you're
concerned about restricting access, you might look at web authentication
schemes, and also some of the methods mentioned here:
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/
There's also a very good book, 'QuickTime for the Web for Windows and
Mac',
by Apple. You can probably get everything you need from the docs and the
website; the book might make it easier/faster to get started.
Bob Majors
Language Learning Center
University of Washington
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