MP3 – you keep hearing it all over. You realize that it has something to do with music or that it is an audio file extension. However, there are many audio file formats out there, but nothing as popular as MP3. What is MP3 format exactly? We will now take a deeper look into such questions concerning MP3’s in this article.
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