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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
Apple Music: 2015 45000000 Trial-ware: 30000000 General United States: DatPiff: 2005 — Free 15000000 Hip Hop, Urban: United States: Deezer: 2007 53000000 Free 14000000 General France: Google Play Music: 2011 15000 Trial-ware: 50,000 General United States: Jamendo: 2005 400000 Free — General Luxembourg: Live Music Archive: 1996 170000 Free ...
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Digital music stores sell copies of digital audio, for example in MP3 and WAV file formats. Unlike music streaming services , which typically charge a monthly subscription fee to stream digital audio, digital music stores download songs to the customer's hard disk drive of their device.
Google Play Music Music locker, store, and streaming service debuted in May 2011, and shut down October 2020. Google has replaced Play Music with YouTube Music. [32] Groove Music by Microsoft debuted in 2015, linking Microsoft's Groove music player to OneDrive cloud storage. It allowed storing up to 5 GB of music in AAC, MP3 and WMA formats.
MP3.com was a website operated by Paramount Global publishing tabloid-style news items about digital music and artists, songs, services, and technologies. It is better known for its original incarnation as a legal, free music-sharing service, named after the popular music file format MP3, popular with independent musicians for promoting their work.
The loudness war (or loudness race) is a trend of increasing audio levels in recorded music, which reduces audio fidelity and—according to many critics—listener enjoyment. Increasing loudness was first reported as early as the 1940s, with respect to mastering practices for 7-inch singles . [ 1 ]
High-resolution audio (high-definition audio or HD audio) is a term for audio files with greater than 44.1 kHz sample rate or higher than 16-bit audio bit depth. It commonly refers to 96 or 192 kHz sample rates. However, 44.1 kHz/24-bit, 48 kHz/24-bit and 88.2 kHz/24-bit recordings also exist that are labeled HD audio.