ARKADY.COM - PLAYING AUDIO ON INTERNET

We are constantly looking for a better way of presenting music, photos and video on this site...

• Depending on your computer, you might need to Press Stop on the currently playing track before pressing Play on the next track, in order to avoid both tracks, or more, playing all the same time...

Example: if you don't want to hear the entire track, and you want to Skip to another one, just Press Stop on the track that is playing, and then Press Play on the next track that you want to hear.

• Depending on the Speed of your Internet Connection ( DialUp, Cable, DSL etc. ), there may be a few seconds delay before each track starts playing, for the first time.

• At some sites, when you click on a link to play a song, the window switches to another window that looks like this

This is a QuickTime "progress bar". The "ball" moves as the music plays. You can Stop, Start, Rewind music by moving the "ball", and when the music is done playing you need to Click on the Back Button to return to the Previous Page/Window.

If you'd like, you can stay in that Previous Page/Window, and listen to a song at the same time. In order to do that, Control-Click (on a Mac), or Right-Click( on Windows) on the Link that to a song, then select "Open Link in New Window". This way the linked web page of that song will open in a Separate Browser Window, and you can hear it without losing the Current Window/Page.

Just keep this in mind: not all browsers, web sites, operating systems "play nice" with each other... This is why, on this page, I thought I'd try to pass on a few tips to the less experienced among us...

• Holding Option (Mac) or Control (Windows) Key while Clicking on Download, copies a track onto your hard drive, where you can listen to it later, when not connected to Internet.

• Feel free to download all these music samples, and spread the word...

• We recommend iTunes for listening to music on your computer, and, of course, you can take your music with you anytime by transferring it to your iPod, iPhone, iPad ...

• A free Download of iTunes Software is available here...

The General "Rule" is -- If you think that you might want to hear Audio Samples again -- Download them!!!

All Audio Samples Files on this page, and the rest of this site, are in MP3 format. To hear them, Click on the Speaker Icon like this and Audio will start playing in a New Window or Tab, depending on how your web browser Preferences are configured. After you are finished listening to that Audio File, simply close that Window or Tab, and you'll be back on this webpage.

You can easily Download these Audio Files to your computer. Then you can hear them even if you don't have Internet Connection. Better yet, if you Import them into your iTunes, you won't have to deal with Closing Windows-Tabs in the Browser. And of course, once these Audio Files are in your iTunes, you can easily transfer them to your iPods, or iPhones, and enjoy and share them wherever your are, online, of line, in the car, on the plane! Also, if you have these files in your iTunes, and you, or and your friends don't own iPod, iPhone, iPad yet, you could burn these mp3's on a CD...

The Other Benefits of Downloading Audio Samples are:

If you Download these files, you'd be helping to lower the Fees for Hosting this website.
Your family and neighbors (Cable) Connection Speed will be less effected, because Downloading is faster than Streaming Audio!!! Although this is much less of an issue these days...
If you are on iPhone, or any other Smart Phone, and you DO NOT have Unlimited Data Plan, you can Download the Audio Samples on your computer, then sync it to your iPod, iPhone, iPad etc... Of course, if you are on a WiFi Connection on those devices, you will not be charged by your Cell Phone Company!

Eventually, all this stuff will not matter, as the Speeds go Up, and the Prices go Down, while Online Access Availability anywhere becomes more of a norm! Until then, Downloading might be useful?!

These Audio files are clean, no viruses, since they came from Arkady's Mac = !!!

TO DOWNLOAD these MP3's, Hold Down Option (Mac), or Control (Windows) Key & Click on the Speaker Icon like this and the file will be Saved to your Hard Drive, wherever you usually Save your Downloads...