![]() AAC (Advanced Audio Coding), OGG (Ogg Vorbis) and WMA (Windows Media Audio) are other lossy formats. MP3 is known as a “lossy” compression format because of the discarded audio data. One of the reasons MP3 was used so often was that it created small, listenable audio files that took up a tenth to a quarter of the space of the original file, thanks to an audio-compression process that discards data deemed unnecessary. ![]() ![]() The MP3 format - short for MPEG Audio Layer III, with MPEG itself short for Moving Pictures Experts Group - has been around for more than 20 years and rose to popularity around the turn of the 21st century, thanks to portable music players and internet file-sharing services. I want to convert more of my compact discs before moving them to long-term storage, but I find the MP3 format doesn’t make for very rich-sounding audio files.
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