New Terms Relating To Audio Files :L

Stereo - Stereophonic sound reproduction

Channel - A path for an electromagnetic signal

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Track - a data-recording path on a storage medium, as a magnetic disk, tape, or drum, that is accessible to a read-write head in a given position as the medium moves past.

Frequency - the number of crests of a wave that move past a given point in a given unit of time.

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Hertz - Unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second

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Decibel - a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave. Think of volume on a radio

http://www.knowabouthealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/decibel-scale.gif

Wav - A sound format created and used by Microsoft Windows

mp3 - A set of standards used to compress and download audio files from the internet, is also the file extension for MPEG Audio layer-3

aiff - audio interchange file format - developed by Apple Computing. Stores high quality digital audio and musical instrument information.