Audio in the Digital Age

Capturing sound and playing it back has been an essential part of our lives since Edison made his first recording on a tinfoil cylinder, but the Digital Age has taken it to a whole new level.

Quality, accessibility and flexibility have all been made better by all of the options we have for digital audio.

Whether you listen to digital music or books on disk/MP3s, the choices are seemingly endless.

Listen in as the Data Doctors discuss the latest and greatest in Digital Audio and introduce you to options that you never new exisited!

Join us every Saturday from 12:00–2:00PM on FM News/Talk 92.3 as we discuss your computer questions at: 602.277.5827 or e-mail your questions during (or before) the broadcast using the ask a question page.

Original Air Date: Oct 11, 2008

• The undisputed champion of mobile audio - The iPod
• Microsoft's Zune starting to win some fans
• Make your own online radio station with Pandora
• Find virtually any song or artist with Seeqpod
• The ultimate way to listen to your music at home
• Songbird - an alternative to iTunes or Windows Media Player
• Sony's Walkman MP3 palyers
• "Who did this song?" answered by Shazam on your mobile phone
• Free Digital Audio editing software

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Bitrate: The number of kilobits per second of data in an audio file. The bitrate you choose when creating an MP3 file determines the size and quality of the resulting file. The highest commonly available bitrate is 320 kbps. A file created using this bitrate will have excellent quality, but will be fairly large. The standard bitrate for MP3s is 128 kbps. A file created using this bitrate will have good quality, and take up about 1 Mb per 1 minute of sound.