{"id":2937,"date":"2016-06-17T23:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/?p=2937"},"modified":"2016-06-17T23:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T23:17:43","slug":"mp3-vs-wav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/mp3-vs-wav\/","title":{"rendered":"mp3 vs wav"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest &#8220;How to Make Music&#8221; video, I tackle the distinction between <strong>mp3 vs wav <\/strong>audio files. The science behind how an mp3 is made&#8211;you actually get to hear exactly what sound gets <em>removed<\/em> to make an mp3 so small&#8211;and when NOT to use one. We&#8217;ll also go over ISRC, the International Standard Recording Code, which every musician needs to track sound recordings for royalties. Finally, I talk about digital distribution, how to get you music on iTunes, and I also share a <a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/vip\/seven\/579609\" target=\"_blank\">VIP discount link<\/a> for Distrokid. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uCYPZiEL8CQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most people know mp3s aren&#8217;t full quality audio files. They&#8217;re a handy compromise between small file size and acceptable sound quality. A typical mp3 is about a tenth of the size of an uncompressed CD quality audio file. How mp3&#8217;s achieve this feat is a pretty neat bit of science. Mp3 encoders use a psychoacoustic model; a model of our perception of how things sound. The idea is to discard the parts of the sound which are less noticeable to human hearing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2938\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2938\" class=\"wp-image-2938 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph2-300x169.png\" alt=\"mp3 vs wav. mp3 encoders use a psychoacoustic model\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.galtmusic.com\/lessons\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/graph2.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mp3 vs wav. mp3 encoders use a psychoacoustic model which is a model of how humans perceive sound<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Listen to the video to hear an example of what gets lost during the encoding an mp3&#8211;it&#8217;s a fascinating (and somewhat haunting) sound!<\/p>\n<p>But when listening to the resultant mp3, most people won&#8217;t notice there&#8217;s anything missing. And that&#8217;s why mp3s are so popular: the filesize is small and what you lose, often enough, is not so bad. But if you&#8217;re going to sell your music on iTunes, or stream on Spotify, or distribute your music to any of the stores or services out there, <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> send them an mp3.<\/p>\n<p>See, not all the stores use the same format. iTunes uses .aac (Advanced Audio Coding), Spotify uses .ogg (Ogg Vorbis) and you don&#8217;t want to send something that&#8217;s already been stripped of extraneous information to have another process done upon it. That&#8217;s making a photocopy of a photocopy! You want to send them the lossless, uncompressed source audio file; that&#8217;s your wav file.<\/p>\n<p>So when should you use an mp3 file? Well, you can choose to use one anytime you&#8217;re sharing your music <em>direct to listeners<\/em>; they&#8217;re probably not going to encode your music again so you avoid the photocopy of a photocopy effect and your listeners will probably be happy you&#8217;re not taking up all of their storage space. But consider using .ogg&#8211;in many circumstances, Ogg Vorbis produces files that are as small as an .mp3 but retain better sound quality. You might also look into encoding to .flac which <strong>is identical in quality<\/strong> to .wav but achieves a smaller filesize. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<h2>For more on mp3 vs wav files&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>As well as ISRC, how to get your music on iTunes, Spotify and digital distribution in general, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uCYPZiEL8CQ\" target=\"_blank\">my video<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest &#8220;How to Make Music&#8221; video, I tackle the distinction between mp3 vs wav audio files. The science behind how an mp3 is made&#8211;you actually get to hear exactly what sound gets removed to make an mp3 so small&#8211;and when NOT to use one. 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