Key Term Quiz
aux
compression
line-in
.mid
MP3
sound card
sound file
Sound Recorder
speaker
WAV
1. Joe wants to record himself singing the ’50s classic “Hound Dog” to honor the birthday of
Elvis Presley. He plugs a microphone into his sound card and opens ________________, the
recording software that comes with Windows.
2. Joshua is the keyboard player for a local band. He records some of the band’s songs into a
sequencer using MIDI. When he looks for the files on the computer, he can only find files
with the _____ extension.
3. The MP3 format is popular because of the ______________________ scheme it uses.
4. The most common sound file format for portable sound players today is ______.
5. By default, the Windows XP Sound Recorder saves audio recordings as ______ files.
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