Recognize a Variety Digital Music File Format (Part.1)

As the process of digitizing the analog recording music, songs, or digital music format has a wide range. We all know because the computer has the latest tehnologi various compression.

MP3
Stands for MPEG, Audio Layer3. MP3 format to be most popular in digital music. MP3 popularity was due to the size of the file is small but has a sound quality that does not lose the audio CD. This format was developed and patented by Fraunhofer Institute.
With bitrate 128 kbps, MP3 files are of good quality. However, MP3 Pro, MP3 format offers the quality of the same bitrate only half of the MP3. MP3 Pro is compatible with MP3. MP3 player can play MP3 Pro files, but the sound quality is not as well as the player that supports MP3 Pro.

WAV
It is the defacto standard sound in Windows. Results ripping from a CD originally recorded in this format before converted to other formats. But now this phase is often skipped. Files in this format are usually not compressed and so are large.

AAC
Stands for Andvance Audio Coding. This format is the standard Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standards since MPEG-2 is applied in 1997. Sample rate is offered until 96 kHz, or twice the MP3. This format is used on the Apple online music store to its iTunes. The quality of music in this format is quite good even at low bitrate.
iPod, portable digital music player from Apple is famous equipment that supports this format.

WMA
One of the formats offered by Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) preferred the online music vendors is because support for Digital Rights Management (DRM).
DRM is a feature to prevent the piracy of music, it is feared that the music studio at this time. Excess WMA not only that. The quality of music offered WMA format better than the MP3 format. Tests conducted Extremetech.com site indicates that this format is also better quality than the AAC format.
This format is quite popular. Software and hardware tools generally support the latest format. But not as much as MP3 support, despite it can be changed in the future.
... to be continued in part.2. Happy Blogging.

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