Inessential Audio

The Student Information Processing Board

Monty ¡xiphmont@mit.edu¿ March 21, 1995

In the ongoing evolution of our beloved campus-wide student computer system Athena continues, newer machines purchased by Information Systems have sound capability. In addition, music scoring, in the form of MusicTEXis avaialble for most Athena machines. This document describes how ’get stuff done’ with sound and music on Athena.

0.1 Etiquette

Please keep in mind that making excessive noise in public Athena clusters is against the rules of use; for this reason do not use sound on any public Athena workstation without headphones.

0.2 Audio and Music File Formats: A basic primer

0.3 Audio Capable Machines on Athena and Resnet

0.4 Playing and Sampling Audio CDs

0.5 Miscellaneous Audio Software

0.6 Music Scoring Software