Beatnik lets you experience interactive Web audio directly from
Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Internet Explorer, or America
Online. Beatnik creates a new low-bandwidth, high-quality audio
experience for Web users, one where sonified buttons respond
instantly with clicks, where navigation bars respond with audio
feedback to your movements, and where tempo and instruments in an
Interactive MP3 remix can be changed by your interaction with the
page or the Web site. Beatnik supports many music and audio file
formats, including RMF (Rich Music Format), MIDI, MOD, AIFF, WAV,
MP3, and AU files. After downloading the plug-in, join in an
Interactive Remix in the Beatnik Sonified Showcase.

Web authors can use the plug-in to add interactive audio to their web
page with simple javascript commands.

This latest plug-in supports secure interactive MP3 and can play
MP3-compressed samples along with compressed instrument data, which
can be wrapped into the RMF format. This version also adds support
for Internet Explorer and the AOL browser, includes more advanced
reverbs for improved sound quality, offers better compatibility with
other sound plug-ins (takes only RMF and MIDI file extensions), and
has a more dynamic scope view. The new Installation Wizard is
easier to use & includes an automatic uninstall for previous versions.