Digital Music
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Digital audio technologies are used in the recording and distribution of sound, including recordings of songs, instrumental pieces, sound effects, and other sounds. |
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Please enter symbols in order to play digital music. Here are some examples:
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| Before digital audio, the music industry distributed and sold music by selling physical copies in the form of records and cassette tapes. With digital-audio and online distribution systems such as iTunes, companies sell digital sound files to consumers, which the consumer receives over the Internet. |
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Digital audio sounds are currently everywere around us - music, radio, TV, movies and Internet sites. The digital sound can easily be compressed and encoded in order to decrease the size of the data. |
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On the picture you see a diagram of analog music that is converted to a digital music. The computer uses binary code which is made from 0 and 1. With the help of the Analog to Digital Converter, analog sound is converted to digital sound. The computer converts the different analog levels to 0 and 1 like 0 is 0, 1 is 1, 2 is 10, 3 is 11, etc. |
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On the diagram above is shown, how the analog sound from the singer through the microphone reaches the Analog to Digital Converter in order to store the digital sound in the computer or the electronic device. When the digital sound should be played, we need the Digital to Analog Converter in order to retrieve again the analog sound and play it to the public by the speaker.
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