About Our Movie and Sound Formats Online

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MP3 Audio
When you see this trumpet icon, you can click to hear a sound file. The sound format is mp3.
MP3 sound is a high quality compressed sound that is widely supported on the Internet. Your browser needs to be set up to play mp3 sounds. If it is not, when you click on the trumpet, you will just get a blank popup window and will hear no sound. There are several ways that you can enable your browser to play mp3 sounds. Any one of the following programs will support mp3:

QuickTime (Mac and Windows)
RealPlayer (Mac and Windows)
Windows Media Player (Mac and Windows and Solaris)

For faster downloads (translation: to save you time), our mp3 files are sampled at 22 kHz (as well as other compression protocals to minimize file size). The actual musical products are substantially higher quality than sample files used on the internet.

QuickTime Movies
When you see this QuickTime icon, you can click on it to see a movie.
This format plays streaming movies. (Streaming means that your movie will start playing before all of the movie data has been transferred to your computer). This allows the movie to start playing sooner. The faster your Internet connection, the sooner the movie will start playing.

If you do not have QuickTime installed, please click on the following link:
(note: QuickTime will play both movies and mp3 sounds).

QuickTime (Mac and Windows)

For faster downloads our Quicktime Movies are highly compressed. The actual video products are substantially higher quality than sample files used on the internet

Downloading QuickTime Movies or MP3 Audio Files
Streaming audio and video is still developing on the world wide web. Depending on your band width, files may "hang" or seem bumpy while playing. If a control strip is showing on your media player, you can replay the file after it finishes loading. It should then play smoothly.When you see a link that says Download (rather than the QuickTime icon), the movie or sound file will be downloaded to your computer instead of played. You can then use the appropriate player to play the movie or sound file. The advantage to downloading is that the file will be on your computer and you can quickly play it whenever you want to. While we have made every effort to compress audio and video files and still leave you with a good experience, most video files still take time to download. Be patient. You will be well rewarded.

Acrobat Reader PDF Files
Special reports and other information downloaded to your computer may be in Adobe Acrobat format. They will have a pdf extension at the end of the file name. You will need Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Adobe Acrobat Reader