Table of Contents

Chapter 0: Introduction

• What's In This Book
• Who This Book Is For
• How To Read This Book

Chapter 1: The Hype

• What Is Internet Audio and Why Do People Use It?
• Some Thoughts on the New Economy
• A Brief History of Internet Audio
  • Bell Labs, 1957 - Computer Music Is Born
  • Compression in Movies & Radio - MP3 is Invented!
  • The Net Circa 1996: RealAudio, MIDI, and .AU
• The MP3 Explosion
  • 1996 - The Release
  • 1997 - The Early Adopters
  • 1998 - The Explosion
  • sidebar - The MP3 Summit
  • 1999 - Commercial Acceptance
• Why Did It Happen?
  • Hardware
  • Open Source -> Free, Convenient Software
  • Standards
  • Memes: Idea Viruses
• Conclusion

Chapter 2: The Guts of Music Technology

• Digital Audio Basics
• Understanding Fourier
• The Biology of Hearing
• Psychoacoustic Masking
  • Normal Masking
  • Tone Masking
  • Noise Masking
• Critical Bands and Prioritization
• Fixed-Point Quantization
• Conclusion

Chapter 3: Modern Audio Codecs

• MPEG Evolves
  • MP2
  • MP3
  • AAC / MPEG-4
• Other Internet Audio Codecs
  • AC-3 / Dolbynet
  • RealAudio G2
  • VQF
  • QDesign Music Codec 2
  • EPAC
• Summary

Chapter 4: The New Pipeline: The New Way To Produce, Distribute, and Listen to Music

• Digital Recording
  • to DAT (studio)
  • from CD (post-master)
• MIDI Studios
• Digital Editing
• Digital Distribution
• Digital Consumption
• Portable Digital Audio

Chapter 5: Software Tools

• Encoding
  • Audio Catalyst
  • BladeEnc
  • Fraunhofer's tools
  • Liquid Audio
  • MusicMatch
  • Microsoft
  • RealJukebox / RealEncoder
  • WinDAC32 & Other Rippers
  • 3rd Party Encoding
• Playback
  • WinAMP
  • Sonique
  • Microsoft
  • FreeAMP
  • RealPlayer
  • Other Players
• Serving
  • RealServer
  • Shoutcast & Icecast
  • Microsoft
• 3rd party Serving
  • Live365
  • Myplay
  • Summary

Chapter 6: The Law

• What Are You Allowed To Do With Music?
  • Recording Rights, Composition Rights
  • Streaming, Downloading, and Public Performance
• What Laws Are There?
  • The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992
  • The Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1995
  • The "No Net Copy" Act of 1997
• Where To Look For More Information
• Summary

Chapter 7: The Security Issue

• Encryption Systems
  • Liquid Audio
  • a2bmusic
  • mjuice
  • Microsoft's ASX
• Watermarking Systems
  • Aris
  • SDMI
• Whence eMusic?
• Why People Will Try To Protect Music Even When It's Impossible
• Why MP3 Will Be Slow To Die
• Summary

Chapter 8: How Artists Can Use The Internet (Push Out / Suck In)

• The Consumer Is Your Network: How and Why Superdistribution Works
• How To Push Out (Be Heard!)
• How To Suck In (Get Visitors!)
• How To Make Money From Your Fans

Chapter 9: Enjoying Internet Music

• The Hunt For Good Music
  • Indies
    • MP3.com
    • AMP3.com
    • EMusic.com
    • Liquid Music Network
  • Popular Music
    • MusicMaker
    • Napster
    • IRC
    • Friends!
• Streaming
• The Portable Issue
  • Burning Audio CDs
  • Burning MP3 CDs
  • Portable MP3 Players
• Summary

The Leaders of the Revolution

• Michael Robertson, MP3.com
• Karlheinz Brandenberg, FHG IIS
• Shawn Fanning, Napster
• Jim Griffin, OneHouse/Cherry Lane Digital
• Gene Hoffman, eMusic
• Justin Frankel, Nullsoft/AOL
• Phil Wiser, Liquid Audio
• Jack Moffit, Icecast
• Doug Camplejohn, MyPlay
• Ram Samuldrala
• Summary

Chapter 10: The Future

• What are the Labels Scared of?
• Personalized Radio
• Donation Systems / Shareware Music
• Multichannel Audio
• Interactive Music
  • Collaborative Composition
  • Voice-Based Composition
  • "Cyberskat"
• Digital Video
• Summary

Appendix A: The Author's Story

Appendix B: Web Resources