Downloading Music
Many legal music files are available on the Web. There are sites that offer free downloads and sites that charge for downloading, either by the song or a monthly fee. Many performers offer music downloads for free on their Web sites.
Most music files available from the Web are in MP3 format. MP3 is one of the most popular sound formats for music because it combines good compression (small files) with high quality. MP3 files generally compress file size to approximately a megabyte per minute. MP3 files are actually MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) files in a format that encodes sound.
Many Linux distributions don't provide an application that plays MP3 files, so you need to install one yourself. Two multimedia sound applications ...
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