<d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents <david.weekly.org> January 4 2002 mp3 book Table of Contents Table of Contents auf deutsch en español {en français} Chapter 0: Introduction <d.w.o> ● What's In This Book about ● Who This Book Is For ● How To Read This Book books Chapter 1: The Hype code codecs ● What Is Internet Audio and Why Do People Use It? mp3 book ● Some Thoughts on the New Economy ● A Brief History of Internet Audio news ❍ Bell Labs, 1957 - Computer Music Is Born pictures ❍ Compression in Movies & Radio - MP3 is Invented! poems ❍ The Net Circa 1996: RealAudio, MIDI, and .AU projects ● The MP3 Explosion updates ❍ 1996 - The Release ❍ 1997 - The Early Adopters writings ❍ 1998 - The Explosion video ❍ sidebar - The MP3 Summit get my updates ❍ 1999 - Commercial Acceptance ● Why Did It Happen? ❍ Hardware ❍ Open Source -> Free, Convenient Software ❍ Standards ❍ Memes: Idea Viruses ● Conclusion page source http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (1 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents Chapter 2: The Guts of Music Technology ● Digital Audio Basics ● Understanding Fourier ● The Biology of Hearing ● Psychoacoustic Masking ❍ Normal Masking ❍ Tone Masking ❍ Noise Masking ● Critical Bands and Prioritization ● Fixed-Point Quantization ● Conclusion Chapter 3: Modern Audio Codecs ● MPEG Evolves ❍ MP2 ❍ MP3 ❍ AAC / MPEG-4 ● Other Internet Audio Codecs ❍ AC-3 / Dolbynet ❍ RealAudio G2 ❍ VQF ❍ QDesign Music Codec 2 ❍ EPAC ● Summary Chapter 4: The New Pipeline: The New Way To Produce, Distribute, and Listen to Music ● Digital Recording ❍ to DAT (studio) ❍ from CD (post-master) ● MIDI Studios ● Digital Editing ● Digital Distribution ● Digital Consumption http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (2 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents ● Portable Digital Audio Chapter 5: Software Tools ● Encoding ❍ Audio Catalyst ❍ BladeEnc ❍ Fraunhofer's tools ❍ Liquid Audio ❍ MusicMatch ❍ Microsoft ❍ RealJukebox / RealEncoder ❍ WinDAC32 & Other Rippers ❍ 3rd Party Encoding ● Playback ❍ WinAMP ❍ Sonique ❍ Microsoft ❍ FreeAMP ❍ RealPlayer ❍ Other Players ● Serving ❍ RealServer ❍ Shoutcast & Icecast ❍ Microsoft ● 3rd party Serving ❍ Live365 ❍ Myplay ❍ Summary Chapter 6: The Law ● What Are You Allowed To Do With Music? ❍ Recording Rights, Composition Rights ❍ Streaming, Downloading, and Public Performance ● What Laws Are There? ❍ The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 ❍ The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1995 http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (3 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents ❍ The "No Net Copy" Act of 1997 ● Where To Look For More Information ● Summary Chapter 7: The Security Issue ● Encryption Systems ❍ Liquid Audio ❍ a2bmusic ❍ mjuice ❍ Microsoft's ASX ● Watermarking Systems ❍ Aris ❍ SDMI ● Whence eMusic? ● Why People Will Try To Protect Music Even When It's Impossible ● Why MP3 Will Be Slow To Die ● Summary Chapter 8: How Artists Can Use The Internet (Push Out / Suck In) ● The Consumer Is Your Network: How and Why Superdistribution Works ● How To Push Out (Be Heard!) ● How To Suck In (Get Visitors!) ● How To Make Money From Your Fans Chapter 9: Enjoying Internet Music ● The Hunt For Good Music ❍ Indies ■ MP3.com ■ AMP3.com ■ EMusic.com ■ Liquid Music Network ❍ Popular Music ■ MusicMaker ■ Napster ■ IRC http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (4 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents ■ Friends! ● Streaming ● The Portable Issue ❍ Burning Audio CDs ❍ Burning MP3 CDs ❍ Portable MP3 Players ● Summary The Leaders of the Revolution ● Michael Robertson, MP3.com ● Karlheinz Brandenberg, FHG IIS ● Shawn Fanning, Napster ● Jim Griffin, OneHouse/Cherry Lane Digital ● Gene Hoffman, eMusic ● Justin Frankel, Nullsoft/AOL ● Phil Wiser, Liquid Audio ● Jack Moffit, Icecast ● Doug Camplejohn, MyPlay ● Ram Samuldrala ● Summary Chapter 10: The Future ● What are the Labels Scared of? ● Personalized Radio ● Donation Systems / Shareware Music ● Multichannel Audio ● Interactive Music ❍ Collaborative Composition ❍ Voice-Based Composition ❍ "Cyberskat" ● Digital Video ● Summary Appendix A: The Author's Story http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (5 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Table of Contents Appendix B: Web Resources content & layout copyright ©2000 -{ david e weekly }- http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/toc.php3 (6 of 6) [1/4/2002 10:53:06 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Chapter 1: The Hype About Internet Audio <david.weekly.org> January 4 2002 mp3 book Chapter 1: The Hype About Internet Audio Chapter 1: The Hype About auf deutsch { en español } Internet Audio en français <d.w.o> What Is Internet Audio and Why Do People Use It? about When people say "Internet audio," they're generally not books speaking about websites that sell CDs online. Instead, they're talking about the recent phenomenon of code downloading files from the Internet that contain information about music in a similar fashion to the way codecs that a CD stores music. This means that you can play music on your computer without a CD, or a tape, or a mp3 book vinyl record! The song is stored in a file. These files news tend to be very large, as it takes a lot of information to store high-quality audio. As a result, most people use pictures programs that compress their music - this way their music files take up much less space on their hard poems drives, but the music maintains the quality of a CD. The most popular of these compressed music formats projects is known as MP3. (We'll get into more of exactly how it works in Chapter 2!) updates Once you have individual songs in files stored on your writings computer, you can have much more control over your music than if you had been listening only with a CD video player. For instance: you could make a list of your favorite 100 jazz tunes, or send a song that you get my updates particularly loved to a friend who lives across the country. If you have a CD burner, you can even burn custom audio mixes onto CDs for your friends! Since files are copied perfectly, they do not degrade as you make more copies like a tape would. Programs are now cheaply and widely available to allow users to quickly make music files of their entire CD collection. For these reasons and more, in the last three years, it has become very popular among college students to store page source http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/ch1.php3 (1 of 10) [1/4/2002 10:54:05 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Chapter 1: The Hype About Internet Audio music on their computers. Many people have complained that putting music on your computer limits you, because you can only listen to music while you're sitting in front of your computer! Fortunately, several major manufacturers have solved this problem by introducing small devices that can store and play your music away from the computer: they are shaped like very small Walkmen, and tend not to weigh almost anything at all. Unfortunately, such devices are not yet compelling at the time of this writing, playing only an hour of music, after which you must run back to your computer to "refill" the device with new music - hardly suitable for a ski trip! There are, however, even newer devices that will likely be widely available by the time you're reading this that will allow you to store many tens of hours of music. Unlike most other technological revolutions before it (such as the introduction of CDs), MP3 and other Internet audio formats were not introduced by the record labels. Instead, they were introduced by consumers who, finding the technology exciting, passed the knowledge on by word of mouth. In fact, most record companies have been quite unhappy by the existence of MP3s, chiefly because it is now possible to quite easily obtain copyrighted music for free: the latest Beck tune is just a click away, regardless of what the label or the band thinks about it. Most labels are scared that free copying on the Internet will erase their ability to make a profit; or more importantly, to pay artists. In Chapter 10, we'll see why they're scared. Some Thoughts on the New Economy The Internet is changing our notion of a market. We used to think that an economy would be centered upon the sale of physical goods, with a small market for services. The rapid and nearly free redistribution that the Web permits morphs what were once products into services. News, once a physical commodity, to be delivered on pressed sheets of paper, has since become a service on the Internet. Obviously, the Internet cannot so dramatically change industries less centered on the circulation of ideas: the steel industry, for instance, has likely been undergoing far less rapid upheaval than the news industry. The music economy has been particularly interesting: originally, music was a service. One paid to attend a concert - you did not receive any physical object http://david.weekly.org/mp3book/ch1.php3 (2 of 10) [1/4/2002 10:54:05 AM] <d.w.o> mp3 book: Chapter 1: The Hype About Internet Audio that embodied the music; that would be unthinkable! But when Edison first recorded his voice on a wax cylinder at the beginning of the 20th century, that all was changed. Music could now be "bottled up," contained within a physical object, and sold, just like bread and beef, as a commodity. New advances in production technology, such as Ford's ingenious assembly lines, placed phonographs and radios in millions of homes, which in turned allowed for the rapid commercial distribution of music that exists to this day. Large record companies would solicit radio stations to play their music, which in turn would allow for rapid and widespread exposure and in its turn leading to increased sales of records.