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You now have a background and animation to add to your web page. Now let’s “capture” a sound. If you don’t have a sound card and speakers or earphones, you will not be able to hear the sound and may get an error message when you do the below procedure. You may not want to attempt “capturing” the sound until you have these “things.” If you want to skip this section, please go to Page 23.

Now we’re going to go to an entirely new web site. So type-in: http://www.weblust.com in the Address area of Microsoft Explorer or Netscape. Then tap Enter. You will now proceed to a marvelous “sound” site.

The top of your monitor screen should look similar to the image on the right.

Click-on Fred’s Media Universe and you will be linked to:

Move down this page, utilizing the elevator bar on the right, until you see the image on the right.

You will want to visit many of “Fred’s” areas. However, we’ll visit the MIDI FILES to “capture” a sound. So click-on the small square to the left of MIDI FILES.

At the top of the screen you will see:

What is a MIDI? MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. If you want to learn more about MIDI a nice site to visit is: http://www.midiworld.com. When you arrive at the site, click-on the MIDI Basics link at the bottom of the web page. This will give you a nice background in MIDI sound.

Move down the page until you see:

Let’s get some “class” and click-on Classical Music (see arrow above). You can choose one of the other groups if you desire. When you arrive at your selected web page, move down the Classical Music page, or the page of your choose. You will see a number of selections. We selected Classical Music for our musical masterpiece.

We’ll choose the bluedann.mid for the sound file. Later, we’ll insert this sound into our web page. When we left click-on bluedanu.mid a sound “player” screen will appear. What you see on your screen will vary in appearance, depending on what “player” you have installed. Ours looks like the one at the top of the next page. When the player has “loaded” the sound, you will hear it over your speakers or earphones.

After you have listened to your tune click-on the “X” in the upper right corner of the player (see arrow at right) to stop the player and end the tune. You’ll have to be careful as you listen to various tunes. If you keep clicking on tunes and not closing the player you can have a “lot of tunes” showing on the Task Bar at the bottom of the screen. So, as you choose more tunes, listen to them, and close each player until you find a tune you like.

When you have a song you like (in our case we chose the bluedanu.mid), carefully, again, move the cursor over the song you want to save until you again see the “little pointy hand”. When you see the hand, carefully click the right mouse button and a drop down menu will appear.

Move your cursor over Save Target As… and click-on Save Target As and you will see a normal Save As screen appear. Save this sound like you saved your animation and background.

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