What is the hottest buzzword around the Internet today? What topic has replaced ‘sex' as the most searched for term on the web? The answer to both of these questions is MP3 audio.
MP3 stands for MPEG 1 Layer 3 Audio, which is a digital audio compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. It takes a CD audio file and gets rid of all the frequencies on the song that can't be heard by the human ear, thus ridding the data file of much wasted space. With compression, the files turn out to be around four times smaller than the original with the same, near CD quality audio. While "MP3" may technically be the name of the compression format, it has become synonymous with the music files themselves.
There are many benefits of MP3s. The biggest benefits would have to be MP3 files' size and cost. By using great compression, MP3s are only a quarter of the size of the original file. With a typical 3-minute song, the MP3 is only around 3 megabytes. With such a......

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