Audio File Format
A lot of people make the mistake of referring “mp3†with the audio player teenagers (and kids as well) have. Partly correct, but mp3 is not only limited to player. In fact, the reason why the mp3 player is called that way is because the files that the player can read are only those with mp3 file extensions.
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 is the longer name of mp3. Files with the “.mp3†format are compressed and so file sizes are smaller compared to the usual audio formats. A simple 3 minute song can reach 6MB if it’s in WMA format, however, it’ll only measure up to 3MB if it’s in mp3.
