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We play music regularly on our computers. You may have noticed the extensions of a sound file, it is not the same in every file, but every file produces a sound. Some sound files are unable to play in your favourite music player due to certain reasons but are playable using other softwares. The files with different extensions have different sizes. You may have also noticed the difference in quality/clarity of a sound file as compared with other.
What matter to us is that we are listening our favorite track, but have you wondered what are the different sound formats and whats the difference between them! Why there is a difference if you play the same song in two different formats!
Here we will be sneaking into the details of different music formats and will get to know their specifications.
Music files are like any other digital file on your pc. They store the audio data in hard disk. There are types of music formats which are given below :
- Uncompressed Audio Formats ....these includes the formats such as wav, aiff etc. As you can guess by its name, these formats use no compression. So they require a large disk space.
- Compressed Audio Formats .... the major formats that we use now-a-days are compressed in one or another ways. These formats clears the music file of unnecessary, irrelevant and reduntant information. These formats includes mp3, wma, ra etc.
The various popular music formats and their detailed description can be found here.
