It has only been six years since Apple introduced their brand of the portable MP3 media player, the iPod. Since its introduction, the iPod has become the rock star of

MPEG audio layer three, or MP3, is a proprietary file format. MP3 files are most commonly used as a format for storing music files on a computer. The format became

Prior to the emergence of MP3s and their regular companions, MP3 players, music files were already being downloaded through WAV, a format considered the predecessor of the former. One could