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A Compact Disc is popular Music Storage Medium.A compact disc is the most popular Music storage medium. It is used to store video and data files also. Popularly known as a 'CD', it has many useful features of quality, capacity, economy and safety. It is far superior than previous storage mediums like tape cassettes and records. Record was the early storage medium. It was replaced by tape. Tape cassettes were popular for many years. Now, compact discs have completely replaced tape cassettes. Quality of music stored on a cd is far more superior to that of a cassette. It has excellent sound output. Tunes and voice are very distinct giving a great purity of sound. Makes listening of song and tunes more enjoyable. This is one of the main reason of its popularity world wide. It offers better safety than that of tape cassettes. Tapes were prone to easy damage and breakage. Formation of fungus due to non use was also the minus point. A CD is much sturdier. It is usually damage proof and scratch proof in normal usage. Very rough use can only cause damage to a compact disc. It is also fungus proof. Hence, it can be stored for very long periods. It has a much higher capacity for storage than a tape cassette. A compact disc can typically store 700 mega bytes of music. That is a huge capacity considering storage in mp3 file format. Mp3 format reduces the file size to nearly 10-15 per cent than its previous file formats. A song of 50 mega bytes can be reduced to 5 or 6 mega bytes in mp3 format maintaining the sound quality intact. Capacity of a cd is one of its important advantages. A compact disc is very cost effective also. Mass production world wide reduces the cost to a great extent. Secondly, competition among its manufacturers also helps in reducing the cost. Now, it has become very affordable and economical. Summary:A compact disc is most popular music storage medium. Technically, it is much superior to previous storage mediums. Gives much better listening pleasure. Economically, it is highly affordable. It is used to store video and data files as well. Resource Box Copyright @ 2008 Jayshree Saah
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