Welcome to our music resources page. 

Thanks for visiting our internet music resource section. First, we hope the information we provide will be used exclusively for music artists that allow taping sharing, and for their non-commercial releases.  We are strongly against dubbing cd's that you can buy in stores and we respect the artists wishes if they do not permit tape trading.  

Our emphasis will be on noting great places to download Free Lossless Audio Compression (flac) and  Shorten (.shn) files, how to download, software, and related information. If you know of some good web-sites that focus on shorten (.shn) music files on bands that allow music sharing please forward them to us. 

We do recommend that you avoid MP3 file formats, because shorten (shn) and flac is vastly superior in sound.  They are both lossless compression formats, while mp3 does lose sound quality. Sure the files are big and take a long time to download. If bandwidth is a problem it is easy enough to find people trade with. If you don't have anything to trade it is usually not hard to find some generous music lovers that will burn you a few discs if you send them blanks and postage (B&P). A great place to find help in building collections is to go to a discussion board and post a message and ask.
Barry Small©

Here are a few articles on various internet music technology such as downloading music files that you may find interesting.
Downloading Music Files
Cassettes to Computer
MD5 files ... SHN files

The SFGate.com - Wednesday, August 8, 2007 had an article that may be of interest. Below is the glossary of terms that describe different types of digital audio:

MP3: What has become a generic name for compressed audio files was originally taken from a set of video and audio compression standards known as MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group). . There are many codecs, or compression programs (Apple converts CDs to an AAC file on iPods), but most reduce the file to about 6 percent of its original size.

WAV: The standard computer audio file stores data at 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample (although recording studios are commonly equipped with 24-bit technology). WAV files are uncompressed and written to compact discs in Red Book audio, which adapts the file for compact disc players.

AIFF: Most professional audio is saved in these large files that use about 10 megabytes for every minute of stereo audio.