MP3: standard for music files & how to convert

What is MP3?

MP3 is an audio-coding-process which has been developed by the Joseph von Frauenhofer Institute in Erlangen in cooperation with the university of Erlangen. MP3 ist the shortcut from MPEG Audio Layer-3. With MPEG Audio Layer-3 audio-data you could pack your music data to the twelfth part without scarcely audible quality downslide. You only need to use 1MB memory capacity per minute. As an example: A WAV-file needs 10 to 12 MB memory. Today MP3 ist the internet standard for music files.

How does MP3 work?

A human does not hear everything what is to hear. Based on the fact the attributes of the auditory have, the MP3 innovators developed a sense fitted audio-coding system. Thereby a few partitions of the digital information became omissive. These often are tones which the humans can’t realise.

With that method it was possible to cut down a great amount of useless digital-data. The introduction of MP3 was a breakthrough in the music sector these days. The most important element for the music quality of a MP3 file is the data signalling rate also called Bitrate. The Bitrate is measured in kilobit per second. The more the bitrate is, the merrier the quality of the performance.

How to get MP3-data?

One alternative is, to record music from cd’s or the radio and to save them on the personal computer on which you can use a compression programm to convert the music files into MP3 files. If you want to download MP3 music files from the internet you have to pay attention not to infringe a copyright or other intellectual property rights.

How to get MP3 files on my MP3-Player?

Most of the MP3 Players have an USB 2.0 Stick. The USB 2.0 Stick you have to connect to yout personal computer. On the front or backside of your computer you will find those connectors. USB 2.0 is a fast connection (128 Kbit/sec), in about 7 seconds an hour of music is tranfered.

How to play MP3 files?

You can use your personal computer with an sound system. But most of the people have an MP3 Player on which you only have to install the MP3 musicfiles you want to hear. The next generation are the MP4 files on which you could also save music videos.

We wish you all fun with your MP3 Player and we hope we could help to solve some problems.

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