Choosing The Right Audio Formats.
After making a recording, it's important to choose the right format to save it, export it, and share it with friends and family. MP3s are great for emailing and sharing on the Internet. Their quality is measured in kilobytes per second, abbreviated as kbps. A 192kbps MP3 is roughly equivalent to CD quality.
Some computer users insist on extremely high quality audio. These users tend to prefer WAV, which is a raw format, meaning that it's the most faithful digital reproduction of a sound possible--WAV files haven't been compressed at all.
Other audio formats include WMA and AAC, which are both proprietary formats that are very similar to MP3s. In general it's a good idea to save your recordings as an MP3 or a similar format to save space unless higher quality audio is absolutely necessary.
After a recording has been saved in the proper format, you can email it around provided that it's under about 6 megabytes or use a service like SoundCloud* for larger files.
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