Tutorial Home > PC Hardware > Audio/Video > Audio Formats Audio Formats With the growth of the online music industry and the economies of selling music digitally online either through downloading or streaming, there has been a myriad of new audio formats developed. From uncompressed audio, used for CDs and PCs, to compressed audio, such as mp3s and RealAudio, the features that these formats encompass vary greatly. Bitrates, encoding, sampling rates, security, compression rates, and more might seem like far off technical terms, but they are integral to the performance and quality of these digital music formats. |
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