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Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia
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Just like video, hundreds of audio formats exist for recording and playing back digital sound and music files. Many of these are software dependant, requiring a specific program to play that particular file. These formats are not of much use when trying to provide audio to the widest possible audience, so we will be narrowing the choices down to a few well-known and well-supported formats that are suitable for web use.
Before we look at the choices of file types to use, it is important to mention that audio is data-intensive medium that has seen amazing developments in the way in which it is compressed and stored. This "data crunching" is performed using audio codecs. The word Codec stands for compression / decompression, which is the process that happens to the data.
Audio compression is very similar to video compression. Both use similar technologies to manipulate data and then offer it in a container suitable for playback to the user.
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