Lossy compression is designed to reduce significantly the amount of data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio. The compact size of these files led to their widespread use in computers, mobile phone ringtones, webpage authoring, and musical greeting cards. The device interprets the commands in the MIDI file and reproduces the music-related events. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage and a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players.Ī MIDI file does not contain any music but instructions about music events and objects.
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio that uses lossy data compression.
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
