Multimedia/Help:Adding sounds
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Not written yet. Please expand this into a proper draft. Things to mention:
intro
edit- link to the "listening to sounds" page
- more justification of why Ogg Vorbis (listeners don't want to know this, they just want to listen; but contributors are beng told what to do, so we need to tell them why
content considerations
edit- when to use sounds
- pronunciations on wiktionary:
- entire p.d. songs on wikisource: (as in, not on wikipedia:; this is taken from the current intro to w:en:Wikipedia:Sound
- naming conventions (especially, perhaps only, on wiktionary)
- layout conventions
- where to get p.d. sounds
- reminder that copyright applies
- http://www.mutopiaproject.org/
- have sound files start at a certain time (not always at the beginning).
site features
edit- link to general uploads help
- explain [[Media:Foo.ogg]] links; and tell people to link to Help:Listening to sounds (or wherever) next to every such link and on the "image description page" [in lieu of us having software that does this for them]
writing software
edit- winamp filewriter: http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=96985
- "sweep": download page
- Audacity: Windows download | Mac download | Unix download
- OggDrop (v. simple windows .wav -> .ogg converter)