You can think of bit rate while the audio is playing back. It's the
rate at which the bits are being processed, like 128 KBPS or 128 thousand
bits per second.
A CD quality wave file plays back at the bit rate of: 1378.125 KBPS.
Sampleing rate is the rate at which a audio file is
OOPS! The frequency is measured in kilohertz, NOT kilohertz per second. 1
hurtz = 1 cps.
- Original Message -
From: Dana S. Leslie dsles...@alumni.princeton.edu
To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Bit rate and sampling
Don,
Imagine a sound wave front coming directly at you, like an ocean wave. In
order to construct a digital representation of this analog phenomenon,
through time, you need to do two things: you must divide the wave front up
into discrete lanes (as it were), along its width; and you must
