All about MP3 files
universal, lossy audio format
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 varies depending on parameterisation and goes up to 90 percent. Heavily compressed data proves highly advantageous when sending files over the internet.
MP3 compression represents the signal in frequency bands, eliminating practically inaudible bands. Great sound quality of music requires an average bitrate of 192 Kbit/s in stereo, at least, while mono suffices for voice-only signals. You would not want to scale up the bitrate of low-quality MP3 files as quality will not improve.
Convert, open and edit MP3 files
Details about MP3 files
- Software for opening MP3 files
- VLC media player
- foobar2000
- AIMP
- Winamp
- iTunes
- Software for editing MP3 files
- Audacity
- Adobe Audition
- FL Studio
- Ableton Live
- MIME-type for MP3
- audio/mpeg
- audio/mp3
Related File-Formats
All converters from or to MP3
- MP3 to M4A
- MP3 to OGG
- MP3 to WMA
- MP3 to WAV
- MP3 to AAC
- MP3 to FLAC
- M4A to MP3
- OGG to MP3
- WMA to MP3
- WAV to MP3
- AAC to MP3
- FLAC to MP3
- MP4 to MP3
- AVI to MP3
- 3GPP to MP3
- MOV to MP3
- OPUS to MP3
- AMR to MP3
- MKV to MP3
- WEBM to MP3
- FLV to MP3
- WMV to MP3
- MPG to MP3
- AIF to MP3
- AIFF to MP3
- MID to MP3
- MP2 to MP3
- VOB to MP3
- M4V to MP3
- MP3 to MP4
- OGV to MP3
- OGM to MP3
- OGA to MP3
- OGX to MP3
- M4P to MP3
- MXF to MP3
- MPEG to MP3
- TS to MP3
- ASF to MP3
- M2V to MP3
- RM to MP3
- RMVB to MP3
- QT to MP3
- ISO to MP3
- MTS to MP3
- VRO to MP3
- F4V to MP3
- H264 to MP3
- DIVX to MP3
- MOD to MP3
- MKA to MP3
- NFV to MP3
- QTA to MP3
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