Click on the thumbnails (the small pictures on the left) to hear the sound file
Road to Hell
The Road to Hell in MIDI format
This file is 54KB and will download very quickly
High Society in MP3 format
This file is 4.5MB and streams at 96kbps
Autumn in MIDI format
I composed this tune in MIDI format
So this 7KB MIDI file is the original
Autumn in WAV format
I saved the file both in MIDI and in WAV format
At 17MB this WAV format file is huge
WAV files are not compressed at all
Autumn in WMA format
I converted the WAV file to this WMA file
The conversion uses lossy compression
The file is 2.38MB
Click on this thumbnail to see a range of MP3 files
They have streaming rates from 8kbps to 320kbps
They have different amounts of compression
The file sizes range from 150KB to 6MB
Autumn in MP4 format
I converted the 17MB WAV file to a 2.36MB MP4 format file
Like the MP3 fomat, MP4 uses lossy compression
The quality for the same file size is said to be better than MP3