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How Do Jay Abraham's Fundamental Truths for Increasing Your Profits and Audio Tie Together? - Part 2
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The Ten Commandments of Using Streaming Audio on Your Website
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Alternatives to Digital Audio
Although MP3 is the most popular format for encoding music, it is by no means the only one. There are two basic methods for compressing audio lossless and lossy, and for each of these methods there are many formats.
Lossless compression means that none of the audio data is removed during compression. Lossy compression means that audio data is permanently removed from the audio file. Lossy compression results in smaller files, but there is no way to rebuild the audio data to its original format. MP3 is an example of lossy compression.
Lossy Compression Formats
There are many alternatives to MP3 when it comes to encoding audio files. Microsoft reportedly developed the WMA format to avoid the licensing costs associated with MP3. WMA files can be played with the Windows Media Player that is included with the Windows operating system as well as many other audio players. It features similar encoding rates to MP3 and similar file sizes.
AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is the format preferred by Apple and is used for its popular iTunes and iPod products. AAC files can be smaller than MP3
files because it uses more efficient encoding technology. A 96 kpbs AAC file is similar in sound quality to a 128 kbps MP3 file.
Ogg Vorbis is another type of lossy compression and uses .OGG as the file extension. It is an open-source product and unlike MP3, there are no patent restrictions on its use.
Lossless Compression
For the audio purist who insists on the best quality sound possible, lossless compression offers CD quality sound. The tradeoff is larger files sizes while MP3 can compress audio in the range of 80% - 90%, lossless compression typically compresses the file by half.
Popular lossless formats include FLAC, Monkeys Audio, and SHN (Shorten). These formats are supported by many audio players and are popular for archiving CD collections as well as for trading music.
About the author:
Hans is editor of the Audio Howto Section of the Selected Audio Review Guide
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| Yahoo! Search - Audio Search |
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| AltaVista - Audio Search |
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| www.altavista.com |
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| Rhapsody & RealPlayer the best audio and video players Real.com |
| The standard for audio and video streaming online. |
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| www.real.com |
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| The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio |
| List of major online audio resources; part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK. |
| archive.museophile.org |
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| More audio reports | Audio archive | Guardian Unlimited |
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| Internet Archive: Audio Archive |
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| www.archive.org |
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| M-AUDIO |
| Manufacturers of MIDI and audio devices for the PC or Mac. Product catalog, company information, news and support center. |
| www.m-audio.com |
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| Audio - Salon |
| Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events. |
| www.salon.com |
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| Audio Engineering Society |
| The leading professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry. Extensive and well maintained site, including online member ... |
| www.aes.org |
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| Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| HyperPhysics: Sound and Hearing · Audio for the 21st Century · Conversion of sound units and levels · Sounds amazing a learning resource for sound and waves ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
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| Audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary digital audio format. ... "I hear" in Latin. Audio, magazine covering high fidelity music reproduction. ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
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| AudioREVIEW.com - Home Audio and Home Theater resource |
| Consumer reviews on home audio and home theater equipment. |
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| CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
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| Audio - Creative Commons |
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| Audio Adrenaline |
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| Audio Bible Online |
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| AudioFind.com - multimedia internet search |
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