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Explorapedia: Audio Codecs Used to Play Compressed Audio

Article ID: 152176

Article Last Modified on 7/23/2007

Microsoft Explorapedia: The World of Nature 1.2
Microsoft Explorapedia series: World of People for Windows 1.0

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SUMMARY

Explorapedia: The World of Nature and Explorapedia: The World of People use Audio Compression-Decompression routines (Codecs) to decompress the sound files stored on the compact disc. Each program uses certain decompression routines to play compressed sound files.

Explorapedia uses the following decompression Codecs to play certain kinds of sound:

Microsoft ADPCM
Microsoft PCM Converter

MORE INFORMATION

The Explorapedia series programs use the following Codecs to play the sounds in the contexts indicated.

Microsoft ADPCM:

Kids talking in the topics screens
Songs in Explorapedia: The World of People

Microsoft PCM Converter:

Tad's voice
Sound for some of the animations
Menu items in Explorapedia: The World of People (in Windows 3.x), Explorapedia: The World of Nature (in Windows 3.x), and Explorapedia: The World of Nature 1.2 (in Windows 95)

To conserve space on the compact disc, many of the sound files may be compressed, so that they take up less disk space.

For more information or troubleshooting tips, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

125957 Explorapedia: Cannot Hear Tad's Narration

130648 Explorapedia People: .WAV Files for Testing Included on CD

Additional query words: mskids kids tad series explore kbmm world people nature multimedia multi-media multi compress de-compress co-dec kbtshoot

Keywords: KB152176