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The MP3 format provides a good quality sound.
Sampled using 16KHz and a 24K bitrate MPEG3 Fraunhofer-Thomson compression.

The RealAudio format typically yields a lower quality sound than the MP3 format.
Sampled using RealAudio's 16Kbps Low response compression.

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