I was wondering what audio file type is the smallest in terms of size...I want to put music on my phone, but have very limited capacity. Is there anything smaller than MP3? If so, can I convert MP3s to this other format? How much smaller will it make the file? Thanks!
2006-08-25 07:27:52 · 8 answers · asked by Yoi_55 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Good question. MPEG Layer 3 or MP3 is still the best form of compression at reasonable rates though at lower bit rate levels you could try MP3 -Pro.
The file size is the function of the bit rate sampling. Lower the bit rate smaller the size but you loose the quality of the audio. Higher the bit rate larger the file size is and so is quality of the sound.
so take your pick. if you store 64kbps songs in mp3 format it would be lot of songs than if you store 256kbps in mp3 format.
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2006-08-25 07:46:26 · answer #1 · answered by Bramhastra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I was wondering what audio file type is the smallest in terms of size...I want to put music on my phone, but have very limited capacity. Is there anything smaller than MP3? If so, can I convert MP3s to this other format? How much smaller will it make the file? Thanks!
2015-08-24 05:07:09 · answer #3 · answered by Guthry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Covert the audio to mono & you'll cut the file size in half. Mono is just all the music is the same on both speakers or headphones. So if a singer was originally coming out the right speaker but the guitar was coming out the left speaker, in mono, they are both coming out both speakers. In mono you're creating just one audio track for everything. In stereo, you're creating 2 separate independent tracks, requiring twice the file size. Mp3 & AAC compression is so similar there's almost no difference is quality. Try a sampling rate of 20-25khz at a bit rate of 32kbs, in mono & you'll get something very nice for a small file size. Use mp3 or m4a so it will be compatible with most players. M4a is mp4 for audio only. I find for small file sizes compressed a lot, m4a sounds slightly better than mp3. If it's just audiobooks, lectures, speech, & talk radio, with no music, you can go down to mono at a sampling rate of 16khz at a bitrate of 16kbs & it will sound fine. 10 years ago WMA & ogg might have been OK. But they haven't advanced as much in years compared to mp3 & m4a, so for high compression & small size mp4 is best, & mp3 is a close second in modern times.
2016-04-20 09:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by calumetarts 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
so far it seems the acc files would allow the smallest vs mp3 types but as i found not all systems can read acc files the common file formats are the mp3 but if you got the converters and just want to save computor space then acc seems to be the best look for the "FormatFactory 3.3.1 it seems to have all video and audio formating abilities plus some
2014-03-23 05:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by Nicholas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i tink a wma file is smaller than mp3. u need a converter to switch the formats unless u have cds u can rip the songs from, then u just tell windows media player to rip as a wma file.
2006-08-25 07:30:32 · answer #6 · answered by bub15 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Convert the MP3 to AAC in Itunes.
2006-08-25 07:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can make any file almost as small as you want thanks to the magic of file compression.... Lousy sound quality though, wouldn't reccomend!
2006-08-25 07:31:12 · answer #8 · answered by Bombenhagel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-10 02:57:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say .ogg
2016-03-20 05:07:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋