Do you know what bit rate is? Let’s understand the mp3 format
3, WMA (Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Audio)
WMA is Microsoft’s media compression method. It is a technology that only compresses audio data in Microsoft Windows media technology, and the sound quality is similar to MP3. From the perspective of compression rate, under the condition of encoding rate less than 192kbps, WMA can get lower volume than MP3 file in the same sound quality condition, even half (but when the encoding rate encoding is higher than 192 kbps, the general thinking is that MP3 has better sound quality than WMA). According to Microsoft’s official announcement, the WMA format is highly protectable and can even limit the playback machine, playback time and number of playback, and has considerable copyright protection capabilities.
4. WAV (sound resource file)
WAV is a kind of waveform file, which directly records sound waveform without compression. The audio track captured from CD is wav file, which is large in size.
5. AMICD
ADPCM is short for Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, the full name is Adaptive Differential Pulse Code, and it is also a lossy compressed digital audio format. This format is commonly used in MP3 Walkman recordings. It can provide a very high compression ratio. Generally, a 128MB MP3 Walkman can record up to 16 hours of recording, but the pursuit of long recording time comes at the expense of sound quality.
6. AAC (Advanced Audio Coding, Advanced Audio Coding)
AAC is a lossy compressed audio format jointly developed by the Fraunhofer Institute (creator of the MP3 format), Dolby Laboratory (DOLBY), and AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Company), and is part of the MPEG-2 specification. Compared with MP3, AAC adds features that MP3 audio formats do not have, such as perfect stereo sound playback, streaming effect sound scanning, multimedia control, and noise reduction optimization, and also supports more sampling rates and bit rates, and multiple languages. compatibility and higher decoding efficiency. In conclusion, AAC can provide better sound quality with 30% smaller file size than MP3 files.
However, in the current MP3 Walkman, only a few have applied this format.
7. ASF (Advanced Streaming Format, Advanced Streaming Format)
ASF is a new generation of online streaming digital audio compression technology developed by Microsoft for Real. This compression technology is characterized by taking into account both the fidelity and the transmission requirements of the network, so it has a certain advanced character. Also due to the influence of Microsoft, this audio format is gaining more and more support.
8. OGG Vorbis format
OGG is the project name of a large multimedia development program, which involves the development of video and audio encoding. OGG Vorbis is a high-quality audio coding scheme, which is more advanced than MP3 as it supports multi-channel coding. Official data shows that OGG Vorbis can achieve better sound quality than MP3 at relatively low data rates. However, due to the limitation of using headphones to play the Walkman, even multi-channel (more than two channels) encoded OGG Vorbis format audio files cannot be listened to with headphones because headphones only provide two-channel output.
