Music files

Types of music files: Midi Mod Mp3 Wave

Quality Terrible on sound cards with out wavetable (e.g. sound blaster and compatibles, SB16, SBpro.) Good on AWE32 and very good on AWE64. Pretty good sound quality, although inferior to mp3's and wav's. Near-cd at 128kbps bitrate, practically indistinguishable from cd at 256kbps, 44.1kHz sampling rate, when -hq switch used during encoding. CD quality @ 44.1kHz, assuming perfect recording.

Size Very small; 5 to 200 kbytes. 100 kbytes to 1 megabyte. Depends on bitrate; around 5 meg for a 5 minute song @ 128kbps(wav file compressed 11 times), twice bigger @ 256kbps. Same size as audio cd track, around 50 megs for 5 minutes song.

Mainly used for: In some games as a background music, not widely used anymore though. In some games as a background music, also for creating songs on computers and distributing it over bbs's and Internet thanks to small size. Pirating songs on the internet. For audio editing.

Pro's and Con's: Small and sounds good on a sound card with wavetable. Unlistenable on a regular sound card. Reasonably small, pretty good quality. Has to be composed with special programs called trackers, which are awkward and hard to use. Unfortunately, most mods pretty much suck. Great sound quality, reasonable size and easy to encode from a cd. Illegal. Exellent quality, few programs exist for editing and special effects. Too big for anything else.

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Types of music files:	Midi	Mod	Mp3	Wave
Quality	Terrible on sound cards with out wavetable (e.g. sound blaster and compatibles, SB16, SBpro.) Good on AWE32 and very good on AWE64.	Pretty good sound quality, although inferior to mp3's and wav's.	Near-cd at 128kbps bitrate, practically indistinguishable from cd at 256kbps, 44.1kHz sampling rate, when -hq switch used during encoding.	CD quality @ 44.1kHz, assuming perfect recording.
Size	Very small; 5 to 200 kbytes.	100 kbytes to 1 megabyte.	Depends on bitrate; around 5 meg for a 5 minute song @ 128kbps(wav file compressed 11 times), twice bigger @ 256kbps.	Same size as audio cd track, around 50 megs for 5 minutes song.
Mainly used for:	In some games as a background music, not widely used anymore though.	In some games as a background music, also for creating songs on computers and distributing it over bbs's and Internet thanks to small size.	Pirating songs on the internet.	For audio editing.
Pro's and Con's:	Small and sounds good on a sound card with wavetable. Unlistenable on a regular sound card.	Reasonably small, pretty good quality. Has to be composed with special programs called trackers, which are awkward and hard to use. Unfortunately, most mods pretty much suck.	Great sound quality, reasonable size and easy to encode from a cd. Illegal.	Exellent quality, few programs exist for editing and special effects. Too big for anything else.