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  2. Alarm device - Wikipedia

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    The word alarm comes from the Old French a l'arme meaning "to the arms", or "to the weapons", telling armed men to pick up their weapons and get ready for action because an enemy may have suddenly appeared. [1] The word alarum is an archaic form of alarm. It was sometimes used as a call to arms in the stage directions of Elizabethan dramas. [2]

  3. Portable media player - Wikipedia

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    There are also royalty-free lossy formats like Vorbis for general music and Speex and Opus used for voice recordings. When "ripping" music from CDs, many people recommend the use of lossless audio formats to preserve the CD quality in audio files on a desktop, and to transcode the music to lossy compression formats when they are copied to a ...

  4. Comparison of YouTube downloaders - Wikipedia

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  5. List of audio conversion software - Wikipedia

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    An audio conversion app (also known as an audio converter) transcodes one audio file format into another; for example, from FLAC into MP3. It may allow selection of encoding parameters for each of the output file to optimize its quality and size.

  6. Comparison of analog and digital recording - Wikipedia

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    Random jitter alters the noise floor of the digital system. The sensitivity of the converter to jitter depends on the design of the converter. [11] It has been shown that a random jitter of 5 ns may be significant for 16 bit digital systems. [30] In 1998, Benjamin and Gannon researched the audibility of jitter using listening tests.

  7. Digital audio - Wikipedia

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    Popular streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, or YouTube, offer temporary access to the digital file, and are now the most common form of music consumption. [2] An analog audio system converts physical waveforms of sound into electrical representations of those waveforms by use of a transducer, such as a microphone.

  8. Audio converter - Wikipedia

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    An audio converter is a software or hardware tool that converts audio files from one format to another. This process is often necessary when users encounter compatibility issues with different devices, applications, or platforms that support specific audio file formats.

  9. Automatic Warning System - Wikipedia

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    An AWS visual indicator (known as the 'sunflower') An AWS audible indicator (capable of producing two different sounds, clear indication sound = bell, warning indication sound = 'horn'. On modern rolling stock the electromechanical bell and horn is replaced with an electronically generated "chime" or "buzz".