• Introduction

• Internet (history)

• Internet technologies (pdf)

Sample code

• File formats and compression (pdf)

Format Descriptions for Sound

CSS: (sample 1) (sample 2)

• Music distribution (pdf)
• Copyright issues

• Music discovery (pdf)

Gabriel Vigliensoni: Internet Radio

Javascript: example 1

• Music discovery 2 (pdf)

Alastair Porter (pdf)

Javascript: example 2, example 3

• Services (pdf)
  • for artists
  • for advertisers
  • metrics

• No class

• jQuery (pdf)
• Mid-term examination (Q5Q6)

Jason Hockman

Javascript: example 6, example 7, example 8

• APIs (pdf)

• Making music (pdf)

Musicmetric example: jQmusicMetric1.html
Musicmetric with jqPlot: jQmusicMetric2.html
Musicmetric with jqPlot & dates: jQmusicMetric3.html
Musicmetric with jqPlot & dates & multiple series: jQmusicMetric4.html

• Music Libraries
• Music information retrieval
• Music scores (pdf)

Final project proposal due

• Final project presentation
• Final examination

Assignment #1 (Due 09/08) 5%

• Build a simple homepage on a local machine (index.html):
  • Basic personal info
  • Links to your classes
  • Place to post your assignments
• Upload your home page to www.music.mcgill.ca (sftp)
• Login to www.music.mcgill.ca (ssh)
• From your home directory, got the subdirectory called: public_html (cd public_html)
• Edit the html file index.html (pico index.html)

Mini assignement A (Due 9/15)

• Find the farthest educational or government website on the Internet from Montreal
• Find the download and upload bandwidth at your home and at your favourite coffee shop
• Upload via ftp a large file (~10MB, a long song) on the music.mcgill.ca server and time the download time to your home

Assignment #2 (Due 9/29) 5%

• Create two fan pages of your favourite musicians linked from your home page:
  • One quite well known
  • One not well known (preferably non-Western musician)
• They should contain:
• Biography
• Discography
• Links to images
• Links to audio
• Links to video
• Links to other related sites (especailly non-English sites)
• A link back to your home page
• They should look good
• Try to make them look good in different browsers and at different window widths

Mini assignment B with BONUS points (Due Sunday midnight, 10/02 ) 2%

• Rank the fan pages of your classmates (excluding your own) per person (1%)
• If you're in the top 5 of the aggregate of your classmates' rankings you get 1%.

Assignment #3 (Due 10/20) 5%

Make comarisons of different lossy compression methods

• Use two different musical sources of one minute each (from CD or DVD)
• Compress the source files (AIFF or WAV) into different formats (including MP3, AAC, Ogg/Vorbis) at different bitrates
• Make at least ten different output files for each source
• Use HTML Table to show and be able to hear the results on a web page (e.g.: http://www.nch.com.au/acm/), i.e., all the files need to be converted to WAV files
• For each file, indicate the compression method, bitrate, and the file size

Assignment #4 (Due 11/10) 5%

• Get Echonest API key
• Create a webpage, where user can enter an artist's name then display dynamically various information about that artist; something like this.

• Create a mashup webpage using APIs from at least two different sources (2% bonus points if you plot graphs)
• Final project proposal (1–2 pages with partial bibliography, inlcude sub goals)
  • Final project ideas

Assignment #6 (Due 12/01) 5%

• Final project presentation (power-point style presentation of what you plan to do; 5 min)

Final project (Due 12/13) 30%

• Software / Music project with description (1–2 pages)
• Maximum of two people per group

or

• Research paper (4–6 pages)