Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New Terms relating to audio files

Stereo: Meaning sound can be heard from both channels (left and right sides) of earphones.

Channel: piece of equipment that can be put into or on top of the ear so that sound can be heard from a device.

Track: A track is a song/songs on an album

Frequency: Frequency is measured of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time

Hertz: the unit of frequencyDecibel

Decibel: the intensity of sound

Wav, mp3, aiff: audio/video formats