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The MP3 Player

An MP3 player is a popular device that is able to take digital files and play them in audio to hear. Although some MP3 players do not limit the file size on an individual MP3 files or other extension (WMA, WAV), by importing gigantic high quality WAV files it would defeat it's main purpose, which is to pack many songs. For example, the average 80 minute compact disk in full quality may be well over 600MB, the average affordable MP3 player may only allow 512MB of space that can be filled. Putting full quality audio files on that MP3 player would be a bad idea, with one minor advantage in that the MP3 player is small. Fortunately, many MP3 players allow much more than 512MB of space and the popular brands like Microsoft's Zune and Apple's Ipod have ability to store 16GB of space and above. Still, working in the best conditions, your instrumentals may be of the highest quality in 32 bit WAV form (or above for DVD high quality standards), these files are twice the size of the 16 bit audio data which is stored on compact disks. It may not be worth the exchange to listen to your giant audio files in full quality on these MP3 players due to their space restrictions, and better use may be heard in the studio only settings and the use of data disks on compact disks, DVDs and external hard drives. An unseen benefit is that since you are listening to your beat in MP3 form and everyone might be as well, you get to hear what it will sound like should it ever be bootlegged or down processed in size.