MPEG Audio File Format

You can listen to MPEG Audio File Format (.mpa, .mp2, .mp3) files. These are actually MPEG files; however, the MPEG format was originally developed for video by the Moving Pictures Experts Group. MP3 files are the sound portion of the MPEG video format.

MP3 is one of the most popular sound formats for music recording. The MP3 encoding system combines good compression, (small files), with high quality. It is an audio compression format capable of a significant reduction in the amount of data required to reproduce audio, while sounding like an exact reproduction of the original audio.