There is a wide range of both free and commercial software which you can install onto your computer to record and edit digital audio, whether for podcast or music production. But what if you don't have the ability to install software on your machine, or it isn't powerful or fast enough for the task, or there isn't enough space, or if you simply don't want to?
For simple audio editing and processing tasks there are now a few versatile audio tools which you can access online via their providers' websites, and which run on remote servers while you remotely operate their interface through your familiar web browser, and stream audio to and from them via the internet.
Read full advice document...A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
Read full advice document...This paper forms part of a series of JISC Digital Media review papers which look at how a range of resources can be found on the Web using search engines. In particular, this paper will look at how search engines can be used to locate audio files.
Read full advice document...There are a multitude of websites providing access to a wide range of digital media resources (images, video and audio) covering many subject areas. This can be very bewildering if you are searching for specific resources to use in the lecture/classroom or for inclusion in a VLE (virtual learning environment). The purpose of this document is to provide a subject-specific guide to finding digital media resources with links to a number of useful websites.
Read full advice document...There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.
Read full advice document...This guide provides an overview of the JISC Digital Media website we think those staff wishing to use digital images within teaching and research materials will find useful.
Read full advice document...This is a list of books, papers, magazines, journals, online publications and mailing lists that JISC Digital Media thinks are useful to keep up to date with developments in audio and audio visual.
Read full advice document...New advice and guidance on making and using clinical healthcare recordings for learning and teaching has been launched today as the output from a great collaboration project funded through JISC's Strategic and Content Allience and is hosted here on the JISC Digital Media website at Making and Using Clinical and Healthcare Recordings for Learning and Teaching.
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This week I attended the RSCtv online presentation on the EDINA image and multimedia collections.
Read blog entry...As mentioned in our new tutorial Internet for Audio Resources and our document Finding Video, Audio and Images Online, SoundCloud is a great resource for music that can be used in your institutional productions, and now finding music which you can use for free has become a lot easier.
Read blog entry...JISC Digital Media in conjunction with the Virtual Training Suite (VTS) have produced three online tutorials.
Read blog entry...JISC has funded a sound archive at King's College London containing performances of once-popular artists recorded between 1900 and 1950.
Read blog entry...Here are the presentation slides from the session Sue and Ant gave on where to find images, video and audio at last week's RSC Wales event: Learning in a Digital Wales. #ldw2010
Read blog entry...A new music repository from King's College London, the CHARM Sound File Search engine allows the user to browse and search a library of around 5,000 individual sides of 78s, digitised to a high standard.
Read blog entry...Our latest advice documents look at the most useful sites for finding digital media resources online.
Read blog entry...We are often being asked about where to find copyright-free sound resources online for use in teaching and learning, especially for creating new media.
Read blog entry...The wonderful music site Musipedia has a music search facility which gives you a number of different ways of specifying the melody you want to identify.
Read blog entry...Steve will be giving a short talk as part of JISC Legal's free live webcast this afternoon.
Read blog entry...We've just released a new advice document: Links to Video, Image and Audio Resources.
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There’s a nice news post about it on the BBC website.
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