If you're a music lover and own a portable MP3 player, chances are you've used an MP3 file recently. An accessible and easy-to-use format, MP3s have changed the way people listen to and distribute music. But how do MP3s work? How do they stack up against CD-quality songs? What does "compression" have to do with it, anyway?

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