Compare digital audio formats
If you are the one who loves music, and even your own computer then Mp3 has transformed the way you listen to music. If you are new to PC audio and telephone Wondering the whole fuss, then you need to know what is MP3, and why is it so popular.
Save the music on a computer without compression requires a large amount of memory, a minute of uncompressed CD audio occupies about 10 megabytes of free hard disk space. MP3 was designed to save a place, while maintaining the sound quality, and this work very well and compresses music to one-tenth or less of the original file size and offers near CD-quality sound. To do this, discard some parts of the Mp3 audio signal, it finds that the student will not miss. For many people, a slight deterioration of the rational to give up the hard-disk space to take advantage of. After the invention of the MP3, a computer user can store a lot of songs in one place and listen to them in any order they wish.
Mp3 is the competition
Today, Mp3, no longer the only game in which the voice compression and storage of the computer a lot of available codecs such as AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) and WMA (Windows Media Audio).
Both new alternatives perceptual coding schemes, such as MP3, and discard the audio information is considered the least important to the sound. Many still argue that these new codec is better than the MP3.
The market today is full of portable MP3 players, almost all of which are compatible with MP3. Most of them also play WMA, some can handle AAC files. These players can decode and play back any file directly in the original format, but some other, it comes with other software transcodes files to a specific format. But in any event the case, the quality of sound that reaches the ear depends on a variety of other things, and most of the codec with which to save the music on the hard drive in the first place.
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