Important Note on Downloading Audio Files from This Web Site

Some audio examples on this web site are stored in IMA ADPCM sample format in a WAVE (MS-RIFF .wav) file. IMA ADPCM is a 4:1 compression standard that uses Adaptive PCM which was suggested by the International Multimedia Association (IMA) for storing and transferring sound data. They will be reproduced in 16bit, 44100Hz sample quality.

When you click on a link to such a file, your browser will download the corresponding audio file and convert it to a format that should automatically play on your computer after the download has finished. However, due to the large amount of different configurations, some computer may not reproduce the examples properly. If this is the case, try to get a copy of a shareware sound player that suppports IMA ADPCM compression or drop the files on the player application manually.

If you are using a PC, the files should play properly without any extra work, since the .wav file format is the native sound format on these machines.

If you are using a Macintosh and the file won't play, grabbing a copy of Audacity is a good idea to cure the problem. Audacity supports the IMA ADPCM compression standard and should play the sound files without problems.