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MP3 has its own unique file extension as well as file format in Windows. It is saved
as an *.MP3 file. You can see that some of the songs are full-length audio files.
Even with a longer length, their file sizes remain modest, as we will see when we rip
CD audio tracks.
Saving these files as full-size WAV files makes them up to ten times larger.
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PART 1
What Is MP3?
INTRODUCTION
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If you select MPEG layer 3 or
MP3 from the Sound Recorder
options, you still get a WAV file,
but by using this format, you take
advantage of a better level of
compression. Now you can have
a file that is just a few kilobytes in
size that sounds almost as good
as a ...