I just feel like mentioning my preferred music formats.

Besides .wav format, which is good when the music is going to be played from an ordinary audio-CD, one of my favorite formats is the .MP3 format. The best feature about it is that it uses full CD-quality (16bit, 44.1Khz, stereo) and that the size is very small for the resulting high quality sound.

Another format which is very useful is all the different module formats (.IT .XM etc). The quality is no longer any problem, like it was in the old AMIGA-days when the .mod format was used. Then, the quality was only 8 bit, and used only 4 channels, but still, the music back then sometimes sounded too good to be true compared to what the format handled.

Nowadays, the .mod formats have been replaced by the .IT and .XM format which handles full CD quality, and up to 32 channels (.IT handles 64, but most soundcard have a maximum of 32) but the biggest advantage of this format is that it sounds exactly the same on ALL computers!

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