Mp3:
Give glory where honor is due. MP3 is as popular as it is underrated: it has done a lot for dematerialized music and has enabled millions of people around the world to discover a new way to listen to their music.
MP3 is a strong and destructive compression format, in other words, a large part of the music signal is suppressed (priority, frequencies inaudible to the human ear … but not only!) And therefore offers a quality that is only good is for 256/320 kbps.
Is it a good chance today? If you choose the MP3 audio format today, you can rest assured that you can hear it on all the devices that have been on the market for 10 years. MP3 is dematerialized music, which jeans must wear: versatility and the highest acceptance in the world.
It is also recommended to select the MP3 audio format if, for example, the storage space on a smartphone is limited, as this (accompanied by AAC / WMA / OGG) is the type of format that requires less storage space.
AAC:
This format is comparable to “Apple MP3”. It has the same qualities and shortcomings as the previous with some details: a little better with the same speed but a lot less standard: Apart from the fact that the manufacturers have made explicit agreements (and pay because they need a license), you will find us in Pratica-compatible devices Much smaller AAC.
Avoid it unless you only have Apple products around you (even the car radio? I doubt it), and again they’re all perfectly compatible with MP3.
WMA
If AAC is Apple’s MP3, Microsoft is WMA MP3. Even less popular as it doesn’t take advantage of the iTunes / Music Store / iPOD reel (which still remembers Zune’s dead iPod killer? Miscroft)
Forget the same qualities and shortcomings of MP3, but less standard, so urgent. I also recommend converting your existing WMA files to MP3 with a comparable or slightly higher bitrate to ensure its durability. Therefore, the current choice for WMA audio format is not a good idea.
OGG:
We also find it under the name “vorbis”, here we also have an MP3 clone, except that it is compatible with the free world (understand for free), a bit in the same format as Linux.
Ogg is a completely free format, unlike the previous one, but it is still very confidential and generally only used by people with a pro-free dogmatic position. While this position is quite respectable, the selection of the OGG audio format in 2014/2015 does not seem like a good idea as it is not widely used and mostly resembles an MP3 format
