Audio Information and
Media
Media and Information Literacy
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Audio Information and
Media
AUDIO is defined as anything connected to sound,
Specially when received, recorded, transferred, or
Duplicated ( HarperCollins, n.d.).
It is anything related to the documentation and
Transmission of sound (Cambridge University, n.d.).
Audio is one of the resources of media and
Information, along with text, visual, and motion.
Audio Media and Audio Information
Audio Media refers to the media communication that
Uses audio equipment to report, document, and deliver
Information through the means of sound. It may also refer
to audio formats such as analog tape cassettes, digital
Compact discs, and computer files containing audio.
Audio Media and Audio Information
Audio information is the file or sound created and
transferred by using high fidelity waves that are heard
through certain audio tools
Types and Categories of Audio
Information
There are several types of audio file:
➢ Radio Broadcast- the act of sending a live or recorded
audio through radio waves meant for a large group
of listeners.
➢ Music – an artistic form of auditory communication
incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured
and continuous manner.
Types and Categories of Audio
Information
➢ Sound recording- the encoding of any sound from the
the surroundings; the act or procedure of making a
record of a certain sound (Merriam-Webster, n. d.)
➢ Sound Clip/ Sound Effect – the sound, aside from
dialogue and music, artificially made to create an effect
in a movie, play, or other broadcast production (Oxford
University, n.d.)
Types and Categories of Audio
Information
➢ Audio Podcast- an episodic series of digital audio or
video file or recording that can be downloaded by a user
from a website to a media player or computer to listen.
Aside from knowing th various types of audio information,
you must also learn the different ways of storing audio files:
➢ Type- a magnetic tape sound recording format on which
sound can be documented.
➢ Compact Disc- a plastic-fabricated, circular tool on
which audio, video, and other digital information is
recorded, stored, and played back.
➢ USB Flash Drive- an external hard disk drive, small
enough to fit on a keychain, that can be plugged into the
computer’s USB port.
➢ Memory Card- a small, flat flash drive used to save data
such as audio files, pictures, texts, and videos for use on
small, portable, or remote computing devices.
➢ Computer hard drive- a secondary data storage device
for saving digital data.
➢ Internet/Cloud – a wide network of remote servers in the
internet meant to operate as storage and retrieval of
audio files and other computer data.
Now, before we save our audio files, we need to consider
first the numerous audio file formats:
➢ MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3)- a coding format for
consumer audio, as well as a mean of sound sequence
compression for the transmission and playback of music
on most digital audio players
➢ M4A/AAC (MPEG-4 Audio/Advanced Audio Coding – a
file extension for lossy digital audio compression.
➢ WAV (Waveform Audio File Format)- the Microsoft
audio file format standard used for the storage of digital
audio data on personal computers.
➢ WMA (Windows Media Audio – a file extension
developed by Microsoft and used with Window Media
Player.
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