Computer Science: An Overview: Global Edition (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson Higher Education
ISBN 10: 1292061162
ISBN 13: 978-1-29206-116-0

Chapter 1 - Data Storage - Section 1.4 - Representing Information as Bit Patterns - Questions & Exercises - Page 52: 10

Answer

With a sample rate of 44,100 samples per second, one hour of stereo music would require 635,040,000 bytes of storage. Thus, it would just about fill a CD whose capacity is slightly more than 600MB.

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With a sample rate of 44,100 samples per second, one hour of stereo music would require 635,040,000 bytes of storage. Thus, it would just about fill a CD whose capacity is slightly more than 600MB.
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