MP3
MPEG-1 or mpeg-2 Audio Layer III, mostly known as mp3 or MP3, designates a format for coding digital audio data. MP3 still ranks among the most popular formats for storing audio data. In the early 80s, the German Fraunhofer Institut developed MP3 as a lossy format compared to Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA): Compression rate […]
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Audio files come in many different shapes and sizes. The so-called wav files are among the larger audio files that you handle in everyday life. This large audio format is perfect for the exchange of high quality sound formats and is used, for example, when the sound is to be preserved without loss. However, since […]
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In order to play m4a files on conventional mp3 players or burn them to an MP3 CD, it may be necessary to convert these M4A files to MP3 . With file-converter-online.com this is done in just three steps: Upload file, select target format and download. The conversion from M4a to MP3 is of course free […]
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Worth knowing about the FLAC format FLAC is the abbreviation of "Free Lossless Audio Codec" and unlike the mp3 format it means lossless data compression, which can be superior to the CD even in the case of a 24-bit resolution, but requires only about half of the data volume of a wav file. So FLAC […]
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WAV files are used to store audio signals – such as music or voice recordings. WAV files are uncompressed, so they offer a perfect quality at the cost of a really huge file size. They usually contain PCM-signals based on Microsoft’s Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Before the advent of mp3, WAV was often used […]
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