What is the difference between MP3 and MP4 and which do you consider to be the better format?
For those new to the digital music world, the MP3 and MP4 formats are compression technologies for converting standard analog audio tracks (like those on a commercial music CD) to smaller digital computer files. The primary reason digital music formats have become so popular is that they deliver high quality sound at roughly one tenth the size of the uncompressed original. As a point of reference, a standard Audio CD can hold roughly 20 songs while a CD encoded with MP3 files can hold as many as 200 songs. Normally when sound is compressed, the quality is dramatically diminished, but many empires were launched because of the MP3 format and its ability to deliver high compression rates with a minimum loss of sound quality. The MP3 format became an official standard in 1992 and began the chain of events that eventually created many popular music encoding programs and playback devices. Today, the sheer quantity of small handheld devices that can hold thousands of songs is mind-boggling, b
