Sound is generated when air particles are made to ...

vibrate

What device is needed to capture sound from the real world?

A microphone

The electronics within a microphone translate sound vibrations into a ....... signal?

digital signal

An analogue sound wave is continuous. True OR False?

True

Analogue sound waves have values everywhere along the X and Y axis - True OR False?

True

Computers cannot process analogue sound, what device converts them to a digital signal?

an Analogue to Digital Converter or ADC

Digital sound in the computer is made up from a series of ........ numbers.

binary

The ADC converts the analogue signal into digital data through a process called ...

sampling

Each vertical measurement is known as a ...

sample

The number of samples measured per second is called the

sampling rate or bit rate

A sound file that is saved without losing any data is using ... compression

lossless

Lossless files do not lose any of their quality when saved. True OR False?

true

Examples of lossless sound file formats are:

WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Apple Lossless

Lossy file formats compress the sound files by ... data

discarding

Lossy sound files are usually smaller than lossless files, but they tend to lose some ... of sound

quality

Music streaming makes use of lossy or lossless files?

lossy

Is this an example of a lossy or lossless sound file?

lossy

All file formats tend to work on all media players - True OR False?

false