considerations for sounding Recording

 sound formats

WAV- a lossless uncompressed format and high quality, making it suitable for video and music production purposes. WAV does not require any complicated encoding or decoding which means that the use of WAV does not cause delays while encoding and decoding audio. However as it is an uncompressed format which means that it will consume more storage space.

AIFF- An apple proprietary format and lossless, its also a lossless file type because it directly copies the original audio source. AIFF files are not compressed therefore computers or playback devices  do not have to do any other compressions and AIFF uncompressed tracks do also tend to sound better. On the other hand they do tend to take up quite a significant amount of storage space this being around double the amount the Apple lossless takes up.

FLAC - A compressed, lossless format and takes up a lot less space than a WAV or AIFF which makes it an extremely popular lossless format as it open source. The main advantage of a FLAC file is the upgrade in sound quality which allows the file to be experienced in its purest form. However a disadvantage of FLAC is that its does not have much of an efficient compression ratio.

PCM - A method used digitally represent sampled Analog signals. One advantage is that it is convenient for long distance communication. A disadvantage is that it requires a large bandwidth.

MPEG- a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio, and their combination, An advantage is that they produce high quality results that are duplicates to their originals. Although the end products of MPEG are very high quality, this results in a low compression ratio or a larger file size. This can be a problem if you are trying to be efficient in storage space.

WMA- ) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MS Audio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. Improves the playback effects at low bitrate, which means it retains high quality with relatively smaller file size. 

MP3-   a data compression format for encoding digital audio, most commonly music. the rich bass and the high frequency audio quality may deteriorate during the encoding (ripping) process. It facilitates piracy, both virtual and physical, hurting copyright.

 storage

flash drive - a small electronic device containing flash memory that is used for storing data or transferring it to or from a computer, digital camera. One advantage of a flash drive is that they do not use up a lot of electricity which means that they do not over heat like hard drives do as they do not need power to keep the stored data intact. Some of the USB drives does contain a security weakness in the form of encryption.

hard drive -stores the operating system, applications, and data files such a documents, pictures and music that a computer uses. Have Large capacity Faster than optical disks like DVD'S Persistent storage Easily replaced and upgraded. however they do consume a lot of power.

solid state drives -  uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data constantly , typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage. One advantage of solid state drives is that they have significantly faster data transfer rates. On the other hand a disadvantage is that they are very expensive compared to conventional HDDs.

    Cloud- An open-source content tool used to analyse and to map news coverage of current events. An advantage of cloud is it provides better resiliency in case of cyber security power outages or equipment failure, traditional data recovery strategies are slow, complex, and risky.