No More Vinyl - Digital Music

If you are not a member of the "I grew up always having a computer" generation, then you, like me, may not know what all the current cyber-abbreviations mean. Perhaps I can help.

MP3 - MP3, short for MPEG-1 Layer 3, is an audio compression format common on the Net these days. It can take larger audio recordings and shrink them down to a fraction of their size while losing little if any fidelity of the sound.

MPEG - 1. Any of a set of standards established for the compression of digital video and audio data.
2. A file of digital video and audio data that has been so compressed: downloaded an MPEG of the new video from the Internet.

iPOD - The generic brand iPod refers to a class of portable digital audio players designed and marketed by Apple Computer. (Hewlett-Packard also markets the product under the name Apple iPod + HP.) Devices in the iPod family offer a simple user interface designed around a central scroll wheel. Most iPod models store media on a built-in hard drive, while a lower-end model, iPod shuffle, relies on flash memory. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

Gigabyte: 1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
2. One billion bytes.

Megabyte: As a measure of computer processor storage and real and virtual memory, a megabyte (abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes in decimal notation.

download - Download means "receive." You can download many kinds of files from the Internet, including images and software.

DVD - Short for digital versatile disc or digital video disc, a type of optical disk technology similar to the CD-ROM. A DVD holds a minimum of 4.7GB of data, enough for a full-length movie. DVDs are commonly used as a medium for digital representation of movies and other multimedia presentations that combine sound with graphics

There - things are MUCH clearer now, aren't they?