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How
to listen to sound samples at Itofarm and Itofarm Store |
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How to listen to sound samples at Itofarm and Itofarm Store There are 2 possibilities of listening to the preview samples of each song: 1. The audio flash player, which is embedded in the different album pages. Here´s a picture with some explanations how to operate this player: |
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Instead of using the "Start/Stop Play" button, you might also start a track by clicking directly on its name. To use this player, "Flash" must be installed as a plug-in to your browser. As "Flash" is used worldwide on countless websites, it is probably already installed on your computer. If this player is not working you might check here. |
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If you are in the shop, you can also listen to a preview track by
clicking the loudspeaker symbol right next to the corresponding track
 . This way
you activate a regular .m3u playlist of the track and your default
music player of your computer should automatically start to stream
and play the sound sample. |
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MP3 is a popular file format for compressed audio. The music at Itofarm is available for purchase in MP3 format encoded at a rate of 256kbps. MP3s will play in all modern audio players for every computer platform. Most current CD players support MP3 CDs with MP3 instead of standard audio files. The MP3 format is the recommended purchase format for all users. |
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FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a file format which offers CD quality audio. FLAC compresses standard audio files (WAV or AIFF) to half their normal size with no loss in sound quality. This is different from MP3 which is a lossy compression format. With MP3s some of the data of the original audio file is lost when the MP3 is encoded. FLAC files are generally very large. A full CD of music (~650 megabytes) will average about 300 megabytes worth of FLAC files. For this reason Itofarm recommends that only users with broadband connections to the internet (Cable modem, DSL, LAN) purchase and download FLAC files. Downloading a FLAC purchase with a conventional 56kbps modem could take 75 hours! FLAC files can be played using a handful of free audio players. Generally, it is necessary to de-compress a FLAC file to the standard WAV or AIFF format before playing or burning to a CD. |
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There are a limited number of programs that will play FLAC files. In most cases, you will need to decode FLAC files before playing them on a computer or burning them to an audio CD. Decompressed FLAC files are identical to the original full-quality .WAV or .AIFF audio files they were created from. There are a handful of portable digital music players that will play FLAC files. Apple's iPod is not one of them. Again, it is recommended that you decode FLAC files before playing or burning. |
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Find a FLAC decoder to use on your computer. |
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Windows Instructions for decoding FLAC files 1. Download and install the FLAC software 2. Once you've installed the FLAC software there will be an item on your desktop called "FLAC Frontend". Double-click the "FLAC Frontend" icon to open the program. 3. Click the "Add Files" button in the upper-left corner of the FLAC Frontend window 4. Select the FLAC files you wish to decode 5. Click the "Decode" button to decode to WAV files in the same folder as the original FLAC files 6. That´s it! You can now listen to the WAV files in an audio player of your choice or burn them to CD for playing in your home stereo system. |
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Mac OS X Instructions for decoding FLAC files 1. Download and install the xACT software 2. Open xACT from your Applications folder. For convenience you may want to drag the application to your Dock 3. Click on the "decode" tab in the window 4. Click on the "add" button to add files you would like to decode 5. That´s it! You can now listen to the AIFF files in an audio player of your choice or burn them to CD for playing in your home stereo system. |
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Listen to FLAC on Windows without decoding 1. Download and install WinAmp. 2. Download and install the FLAC plug-in for WinAmp. 3. Open your FLAC files in WinAmp and enjoy! |
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Are there any restrictions on the music I download? There are no technological restrictions or DRM (Digital Rights Management) applied to any of the music files downloaded from Itofarm. Nevertheless, users are bound by the terms of agreement which accompanies their purchase as follows: By downloading the music files
you accept the following usage rules: |
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Is there any CD cover art available? Cover art is available for all download album releases at Itofarm. It comes as part of the purchased '.zip file' in the store. Cover art is supplied in PDF (Portable Document Format). These files may be opened and printed using Adobe's Acrobat Reader software. |
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