Designing Web Audio Review

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Book:		Designing Web Audio & CD-ROM
Subject:		Designing Web Audio Review
Date:		2001-01-27 17:22:45
From:		Ed Quigley

Rating: I've been eagerly awaiting this book, because as a web designer I've been looking for an authoritative (ie, O'Reilly) work on the topic. The book was good to prettygood - nothing in here from a coder's perspective that you wouldn't already have from HTML and Flash experience, but a lot of info for people setting up sound systems to record for the web - this is more a book for audio types moving to the web than for web types trying to embrace audio - but what I was really disappointed in was that the sound files the books lists as being on the website aren't available as described. You know, I skimmed this book while nursing my latte at Borders, I sped-read the chapters of most interest to me, and I saw that they had cool sound files on their website - and I bought the book rather than chumping out and just going to the website, because I want to support the people that are helping me. When I went to the site and found that the sound clips aren't up as promised (in page 17 of the book), I felt like the one who'd been chumped. This is NOT the standard experience when dealing with O'Reilly products. I wish I had not bought it, because they did not deliver what they said they would.