![]() ![]() If you want to find a song online, odds are it will be available as an MP3, legally or not. Among downloadable music's main audience, young adults, three-quarters prefer MP3s, said Lee Black, analyst with Webnoize, a digital-music research firm. MP3 files are the dominant format for downloaded music. They reduce the size of a digital sound recording by discarding elements less perceptible to the human ear, generally reproducing the basic qualities of music at the expense of subtleties, despite claims of "CD-quality sound." A third is Microsoft's Windows Media Audio, an older standard whose technology - and marketing - has been upgraded.Īll are similar to MP3s. ![]() Another is an open-source format produced by independent developers. One is pitched as a successor to that popular digital music format. The mighty MP3 is getting more competition with the release of new digital audio formats. ![]()
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