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The document provides an overview of key concepts related to digital audio, including analogue signals, sampling, sampling rates, bit depth, and bit rates. It explains how these factors affect audio quality and includes true/false questions to reinforce understanding. Additionally, it outlines the calculations for bit rate and file size in relation to audio files.

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The document provides an overview of key concepts related to digital audio, including analogue signals, sampling, sampling rates, bit depth, and bit rates. It explains how these factors affect audio quality and includes true/false questions to reinforce understanding. Additionally, it outlines the calculations for bit rate and file size in relation to audio files.

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Flashcards

What is an Information in the form of


continuous varying data is
analogue signal? an analogue signal

Sampling is the process


that converts analogue
What is sampling? sound into discrete digital
data that can be stored in
a computer.

What factors
Sampling rate, bit depth
affect the audio and bit rate
quality of digital
sound?

The sampling rate is the


What is a number of samples taken
sampling rate? per second.

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What is the unit for
measuring a Hertz (Hz)
sampling rate?

True or false: The


higher the
sampling rate, the True
higher the sound
detail.

Bit depth is the number


What is bit depth? of bits available for each
sample.

What values does a CD can represent values


CD represent? from 0 to 65535(216 -1).

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PCM is the process for
digitising a sound file
What is PCM? and creating an
uncompressed file.

Bit rate is the number of


bits of data used to store
What is a bit rate? data sampled every
second.

How is the bit rate Bit rate=Sampling rate


calculated? × bit depth × channels

The unit for bit rate is


What unit is used to
kilobits per second
calculate the bit rate? (kbps).

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True or False: The
False. The more the bit
more the bit rate
rate the better the
the lesser the quality.
quality.

Why is the audio


quality of a music The bit rate of a music CD is
CD better than higher than downloading
from Internet
downloading from
Internet?

True or False: The


more the bit rate
True.
the higher the file
size.

How is a file size of


File size (bits) =bit rate×
an audio file number of seconds
calculated?

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What is the bit
16 bits
depth of a CD?

What is the bit 24 bits


depth of a DVD?

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