Wizard Radio

It Had to Happen!!

Dare to go to the EDGE musically. Take WIZARD RADIO with you as you travel through cyberspace. IT IS A TRIP!

Have you ever dreamed of building a radio station? Now everyone with a little time (well, actually a lot of time) can create and customize their own radio station. Just visit SonicRadio (previously known as ImagineRadio) and you can program one just the way you want.

Or better yet, just listen to Wizard Radio.

Would you like to see my my Sation Overview? Check it out: My Radio.SonicNet Station

MULTIMEDIA ON THE INTERNET

THE LATEST MUTLTIMEDIA NEWS NEWS

Links

Multimedia is now coming in a over thirty-one flavors on the Web with more being invented every day. Unfortunately, you need plug-in and add-ons to make each one of them work. Requirement generally include WINDOWS 95, a 28.8 modem, and either MICROSOFT INTERNET EXPLORER 4.0 or NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 4.0. MacroMedia Shockwave is an absolute must, as is RealAudio 5.0. After that, it's your tolerance for downloading files and your hard drive's size. Check out these sites to see multimedia "on the edge."

RealAudio Home Page RealAudio continues to innovate at a rapid pace. Their newest product Real Jukebox is simply awesome! It plays and records in either RealAudio or MP3. It looks up every CD you play or record on the Internet and provides complete information - title, artist, etc. The product is in beta and it's free. This is must-have software for anyone on the Internet!!

Music Match A tough competitor for RealAudio (above) is Music Match. Their JukeBox is generally getting better reviews for MP3 recording and Playback. It's a free 30 minute download at 28.8. And, like RealAudio, there is a 29.95 upgrade. The standard version allows encoding at the RealAudio JukeBox rate of 96kps. With the upgrade you can record at 128kps, which is really the standard among MP3 junkies.

HitSquad Music Machine www.Hitsquad.com Music Machine Shareware
The Musician's Web Center. Superb shareware, ideas, advice and counsel are all available at HitSquad.com. They bill themselves as the leading music recording site on the Internet. That may not be true, but they are clearly one of the very best! According to tracking by Netscape Hitsquad.com is one of the top 2,000 most accessed domains on the Internet.

Audio-Net Home Page This site is now part of Broadcast.com. Hundreds and Hundreds of Radio Stations, Television Stations ond Internet Only Broadcasters now broadcast over the Net!!! This sophisticated and very user friendly site makes it all available. And they have over three hundred (300) CD available for play. More of everything is being added daily.

UNC MetaLab Sound Files Link directly to hundreds of sound files for easy downloading. Our cornucopia of our culture - it's all here. While the above is a direct link, I recommend you "start at the beginning" and explore the entire University of North Carolina Metalab. It's well worth your web-surfing time.

Virtual Radio Home Page Download entire songs - even if they are a little obscure.

MIDI Resources

First You Need A Great MIDI Player

The Crescendo MIDI Player supports streaming MIDI and now also plays MP3. We use Cresendo here every day and reccommend it highly. There is a free download version available, but we recommend you pop the $24.95 and get CrescendoMAX. Crescendo MAX delivers a superb audio experience, no matter what Internet connection speed you're using. It allows you to isten to all kinds of music all over the web. Crescendo's latest development is LiveSynth PLUS, which features a mega-bank of top quality General MIDI instruments. We appreciate never having to wait for music to start playing, thanks to Crescendo MAX's streaming MIDI technology!

MIDI Music Resources

The Classical MIDI Archives As of March 27, 2000, Peter Schwob had collected 9147 Classical Music files in MIDI Format from 648 Composers. But the collection grows each day. Every effort has been made to organize the site and make it easy to navigate, but the site is so big it is still tough to find a specific selection.

Lanny Chamber's Hummingbird Site MIDI MUSIC Section - NEW URL Here's a neat little find for the MIDI Music Fan. The Internet's Premier Hummingbird Expert also transcribes MIDI Music onto the Net. These are some of the best done and most intricate MIDI transcriptions we've found on the Internet.

Bob's JukeBox Favorites Bob has gathered together a great collection of very high quality MIDI files with lots of contempory and "golden oldie" favorites.

The Cowdance Giant Midi List Never been to the Cowdance? Well your missing a "rare" treat, if you'll pardon the pun. So many people kept sending creator Jason Neester midi files he was finally buried under them all. He set up a master file and them just dropped them in here - he's not even sure if they all work. But if you're looking for something, you'll probably find it here!