Song File Formats

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Music | Words | OHP | Recording

Music

The music files generally consist of guitar chords + tune + words.

They use Adobe Acrobat format; a free reader is available from http://www.adobe.com.

In some cases a Bflat part is provided for trumpets, clarinets and other Bflat instruments.

Words

A simple text file for formatting as required.

OHP

The MS Word 97 file used to generate the OHP slides used at my home church.

Before putting the file on the website it was compressed to a zip file. If you need a program to convert the download file back to a Word document, a good free one is 'PowerArchiver'.

Recording

I've included recordings of some of my songs - basically to give an idea of how the song should go. Neither my voice nor my playing are up to doing first class performances; and I don't have the time or the equipment to do polished studio quality recordings.

I've used the Real Audio compression system, set up to stream mono audio over a 56k modem link. Put simply, that means you don't have to wait for a huge file (over 500k) to download before you hear the music - rather you hear it as it downloads. To get a free Real Audio Player, visit http://www.real.com (NB they also do one that costs money - the free one is quite good enough for these files).

An effect of this is that if you want to download the audio file, you will need to do the following ...

1. download the file linked to from the web page
2. convert it to a text file (on Windows renaming it to text.txt will do)
3. read the text file (on Windows, notepad will do) - this gives the web address of the actual audio file
4. download the actual audio file

It's a bit of a faff, but it is possible.

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