| Moving with the times sometimes becomes difficult, | | | | amount of space available on mp3 CD players to |
| especially when there are new terms that sound | | | | store files. Similar to memory in your home computer |
| Greek to you. The biggest craze today are mp3 CD | | | | memory for players comes in many sizes and types. |
| players and with them come some terms you may | | | | Gigabyte - This is a unit of storage most common |
| not be familiar with. Let this be your guide to the new | | | | for all digital products. In the early days of computing, |
| world of players. | | | | there were bytes, then kilobytes, megabytes and now |
| Terms | | | | gigabytes. A gigabyte is equivalent to one billion bytes |
| MP3- MPEG - 1 Audio Layer 3 is a type of digital | | | | or in other words a lot of memory! |
| audio format that uses lossy data compression and is | | | | Playlist - This is a list of songs or albums that you |
| the standard encoding for all digital. To put it in terms | | | | have set up on your computer. |
| that are more common it is a way of storing music | | | | WAV - An uncompressed windows audio file that |
| data on a disc that takes up a lot less space than | | | | takes quite a bit of space to store. These are |
| conventional methods with little or no loss of sound | | | | generally converted to mp3 files to play on your |
| quality. | | | | players. |
| Digital Music - Originally used in the 70s for | | | | WMA - Windows media format music file. |
| commercial music recordings it is nearly standard now. | | | | According to reports sounds just as good as mp3 |
| Basically, it has taken music and converted it to a file | | | | formats with half the storage needs. |
| system, which allows lower cost distribution. | | | | Conclusion |
| Downloadable music for Mp3 CD players depends on | | | | As you can see there is quite a glossary of terms |
| digital audio. | | | | associated with mp3 CD players, and this is but a |
| Download - This is the process by which you can | | | | sampling of the most commonly used terms. There |
| purchase music from the internet and use it on your | | | | are many more that lean to the technical side of the |
| computer or transfer it to mp3 CD players. By | | | | mp3 CD players format. The above terms will put you |
| definition, it is moving data from one source to another. | | | | on the right path to understanding this new technology. |
| Memory - This term is self-explanatory; it is the | | | | |