What are RealAudios weaknesses?
• Sounds like AM. • Costs about $10/month to put it on your site. What is MP3? MP3 is a format that compresses raw wav files at about 10-1 (so a 10 megabyte wav file would be a 1 megabyte MP3 file). I think it’s the same compression scheme they’re using with minidiscs. There is some loss of fidelity in the compression, but surprisingly little. An MP3 file is about 1 megabyte per stereo minute. Use a program called WinAmp to play MP3s. This format is popular in the hacker community, where they like to encode current top 40 CDs into MP3 format and trade them over so-called “warez” sites. Record labels are getting nervous about all this, because you can fit 700 minutes of hi-fi sound on a recordable CD. What is wav format? Wav is uncompressed audio data on PCs. It’s about 10 megabytes per stereo minute. Sound files have to be in wav format to be edited (as far as I know), which you do with wav editing programs such as Cool Edit, Wavelab, Cakewalk, Sound Forge, etc. Use WinAmp to convert t
