How come wave format is bigger in size while MP3 format is smaller?
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mp3 is considered to be a lossy compression. This means that sound that then encoder thinks that a human ear would not be able to hear is deleted. \n\nthe size of the mp3 will also depend on the bitrate of the file, this is more the detail to the sound the higher the bitrate the better quality it is. most rock music is about 128kbs where classical is better at a higher bitrate such as 200kbs+
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i sugget you to convert it to realone format, use realone player for pocket pc to play it\nand to convert it you can use realproducer, it can switch video and audio bitrate, so you can decide how big the result file size.
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If space is not of a concern, then you should try using a lossless codec such as WAV or FLAC. MP3, Vorbis, and all other codecs lossy codecs lose some quality by throwing away parts of the audio file that your not likely to hear. I recommend trying FLAC as it creates smaller files with the same quality as a WAV file or a CD:\n\nhttp://flac.sf.net\n\nFor more on audio compression, read this Wikipedia article:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_data_compression
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this is a software problem : your players installed in your computer\ndo not have the proper codec to open your file.\nyou must see the advanced properties of your file (right click )\nsee what kind of wave format you need\nand then easlly go to  " codec-download.com and download the\none you need, install and enjoy!
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WAV (or WAVE), short for WAVE form audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. It is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in "chunks", and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF format used on Macintosh computers. It takes into account some differences of the Intel CPU such as little-endian byte order. The RIFF format acts as a "wrapper" for various audio compression codecs. It is the main format used on Windows systems for raw audio.\n\nAdvanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme intended for audio streams.\n\nMPEG Audio Layer-3, or more commonly refered to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardized in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. In popular usage, MP3 also refers to files of sound or music recordings stored in the MP3 format on computers.\nContents
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wma = longer\nmp3 = shorter\nbut, the important thing is...it is the only difference...i mean, maybe if ur a sound engineer or something like that, you'll notice the difference in the "quality" of the sound...otherwise...nah, no difference...and yeah, both can be played on cd players as long as the player you have takes wma and mp3 files...and yeah, both can be burn to CDs...and my advice is...get the mp3s...they take less space in ur disc which means you can take more music in one single CD...nice huh???
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when you rip cds to mp3, some of the software has the option to "Normalise it". what it does is basicly try to put all song at the same sound level, so when you play them, no song sounds too low or too high.
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Dude...both are the same formats. Nothing different in them. Anyways, y do u ask? Probably I can help u better then!
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Without mentioning specific audio and video (and image) formats because there are so many, there are two primary audio and video format types: those that are lossy and those that are lossless.\n\nThe "loss" at the beginning of "lossy" and "lossless" refers to quality. Lossy file formats sacrifice quality to get a better file size. Lossless formats do not sacrifice quality and result in larger file sizes.\nUsually compression with regards to audio, video, and picture, refers to quality (though not always). For example, the JPEG file interchange format (JFIF) uses lossy compression, where the lower the quality, the better compression (the smaller the file).\n\nAll MPEG formats are lossy formats. These include MPEG-1 video, MPEG-1 part 3 layer 3 audio (MP3), MPEG-2 video, MPEG-2 part 7 audio (AAC), MPEG-4 video, and MPEG-4 part 3 (AAC). This are many more lossy audio and video formats - this is just to name a few. There are also a very large number of lossless audio and video formats.
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There isn't a set number.  It depends on the type, the format, and the size.  For example, most CD quality songs (wma format) range from 3MB to 6MB.  MP3's are much smaller, but still they can add up.\n\nCopyright Laws do affect what songs you can place on your website for public use, so beware.  If they are your songs, however, and you own the copyright, add them away.\n\nHope this helps!
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You can re-encode them, but you won't gain any audio quality. Encoding to 128kbps means your mp3 uses up more data per second (to be precise, 32 kilobits), but if there is no extra data to fill up that extra space, those 32 kilobits per second will simply go to waste. So the only way to get 128kbps audio quality is to redownload the song at 128kbps or a higher bitrate, then downgrade it to 128kbps if you want to.
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usually the mp3 at 128bps is a good quality mp3\nalso you can go below this bps but the quality deteriorates.so convert them to 128bps\nby\nmp3 2 wavmaker \nbelieve me i have used it and it works fine but \nu have to first convert mp3->wav then back to mp3 \ni came across another Stream box ripper \nfind it on download.com or enfull.com or google.com\nit can convert file from 192bps to 128bps without converting it to wav.now after converting to 128 if u think to go back to 192 then there is improvement in sound quality.it works only one way
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it didnt store enought songs. but now you can get a high GB nano for the same as the 1 GB
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sometimes it works to simply rename the file extension. If that doesn't do it download.com might have an audio converter. Search "mp332 to mp3"
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mp3 is a lot cheaper, but I would have to say that the iPod is better.
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If you go into the setting of windows media player you can change the rip format to mp3.
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AUDIO\nwma takes the least amount of space. if you have Micro$oft Plu$ it has a converter in it that will let you convert mp3's to wma. if your cd player will play mp3's it should play the wma's as well. when you convert an mp3 to wma it lets you select how large/small the output file will be. a 5 meg mp3 file could easile be made into a 2 meg wma file wit no loss of quality.\n\nVIDEO\nwmv and avi are pretty close but they will not play in a cd player and will only play in a dvd player that says "Supports Windows Media" on it.\n-Doc-