Week 5- Bits and Bytes

This weeks lecture is about Audio and Bits and Bytes.  This lecture really goes along with my product of the Iwatch because the main function of the Iwatch is the music.  Bits and Bytes change the way that we hear music.  If there are too many bits and bytes, it is really hard to be able to hear the different sounds.   WAV and MP3 are the two different types of audio formats which change the way that the music sounds.  WAV format is the better one of the two because it has a larger storage space of bytes.  MP3 uses lossy data compression (a common audio format for consumer audio storage) and is more common for a consumer audio storage.

For my Iwatch, we would use the MP3 format because it is more common.  We would have the consumer download the music that they would want on their watch in MP3 from their Itunes.  This would be the smarter choice because since it is more common that a consumer would have MP3, many more people would be able to download the music that they would want to listen to.



The Iwatch would have a frequency of about 44.1 kHz (http://www.lisashea.com/hobbies/music/formats/samplingrate.html).  This is the common frequency of MP3 players and will make the music very clear for the customer that is listening.  The Iwatch will also have formats that work well with Macs and PCs because they cannot determine before-hand which the consumer will download their music from.