Again, many formats available
Sound can be useful, fun, or just very annoying
MP3s and other audio downloads
Inserting sounds into web pages is not difficult to achieve techincally, despite the maze of audio formats that are available, although using sound to good effect in a website is much trickier. In this section, we'll have a quick look at the basic formats and methods for delivering audio, though anything more is a little beyond the scope of this module - see Niederst (2001) for more details.