Terminology | Description | |
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CODEC (or Codec) |
CODEC stands for compression / decompression. A codec is a small program which allows Windows to compress and/or decompress audio to and from certain formats |
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Compression |
The process of reducing the dynamic range of a given analog audio program by making the loud parts quieter and the quiet parts louder. A means of encoding a digital file so that it occupies a smaller amount of disk space than the data contained within the file. In order to make use of a compressed file, one must employ a codec (coder-decoder) |
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Digital |
The method of turning sound information into computer or electronic information and then |
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Megabyte |
Unit of measure for data file size. 1 megabyte = 1000 kilobytes. 1 gigabyte(gb) = 1000 megabytes. 1000 gigabytes = 1Terabyte. |
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