MP3 technology has taken the world by storm and has been readily accepted by people. MP3 players have no moving parts and deliver high-quality sounds. They are portable and can be carried by those that love their music on the go. An MP3 player consists of a microprocessor, hard disk for storing memory files, audio and data ports. The link port is available and connects the player with the headphones or even with firewall or USB cables. The audio files can be transferred from computer devices to MP3 players and vice versa.
How effective is MP3 technology?
Before the MP3 technology, was available, music was stored on physical devices such as tapes that were bulky and also prone to scratches. MP3 technology helps music lovers across the world to record the music easily and requires lesser storage space. The storage system is compact and also enables music lovers to retrieve, rewind and fast-forward the songs and audio files extremely quickly. Tapes and other physical devices took a longer time to rewind and fast forward as well.
Process of storing songs
MP3 music files consist of compressed data, and a number of files can be fitted on a single player. Better, yet, they can be easily organized, recorded, deleted, transferred with ease. Depending on the storage capacity, an MP3 player can store hundreds of songs, while the cassette tapes could barely store 10 songs. Since there is no loss of quality, listeners can hear the audio files as they were transferred on the MP3 players. These files are stored on specific solid-state memory chips. These are certainly improved since they don’t miss out the songs and usually are more consistent and less expected to smash. To transfer, the songs from the computer to the MP3 player simply connect it with a USB cable and use any music software to download the audio files that you want.
The audio files are converted into binary information (a series of one’s and zeroes) when they are transferred on the player. All MP3 players have microprocessors that are considered to be the main brain behind its functioning. The microprocessor will relay all the user commands and process it.
Playing the Songs
All MP3 players have series of buttons that perform various functions. With just a click, users can organize, delete, transfer, rewind, fast forward, generate play list and favorite play lists, play songs and audio clips.
Many of the players can support multiple formats for playing the songs and the audio files. While MP3 format remains the most popular, file formats such as WMA, WAV, MIDI, ASF are also quite popular.
Those MP3 players that have 1GB of storage space can store about 240 songs or about 20 CDs. Considering that an average song is usually 4 minutes long, listeners can experience 16 hours of non stop music. This is a feature that the traditional tapes were unable to provide. There are many types of MP3 players and include flash memory players, hard drive and mini hard drive players and are known as the hybrid MP3 players.
