Buying an mp3 player
Buying an mp3 player It seems that everyone has one these days.
Walking the dog, traveling to work, at the gym, the idea of
carrying your entire music library everywhere with you is
appealing to most of us, but what is this mp3 thing anyway?
What is mp3? MP3 is an abbreviation for Moving Picture Experts
Group layer III. This technology allows audio data to fit into a
much smaller space than it used originally, with little or no
loss of audio quality. Normally raw audio data is very large and
unmanageable and is especially difficult to deal with on
portable devices due to the lack of storage available (your
standard audio CD fits at most 80 minutes of raw audio data on
it). Mp3 allows the storage of approximately 10 times the raw
audio data in memory of the same size (that