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A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.

According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9% of all music sales in the US in 2012.

As of January 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made $1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year.

MPEG-1 and/or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3 (or mp3), is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression, which are data encoding methods that use inexact approximations and partial data discarding to reduce file sizes significantly, typically by a factor of 10, in comparison with a CD, yet still sound like the original uncompressed audio to most listeners.

Compared to CD quality digital audio, MP3 compression commonly achieves 75 to 95% reduction in size.

MP3 files are thus 1/4 to 1/20 the size of the original digital audio stream.

This is important for both transmission and storage concerns.

The basis for such comparison is the CD digital audio format which requires 1411200 bit/s.

A commonly used MP3 encoding setting is CBR 128 kbit/s resulting in file size 1/11 (=9% or 91% compression) of the original CD-quality file.

A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.

Written words created specifically for music or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics.

If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song.

Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants.

Songs in a simple style that are learned informally are often referred to as folk songs.

Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs.

These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers and lyricists.

Art songs are composed by trained classical composers for concert or recital performances.

Songs are performed live and recorded on audio or video (or in some, cases, a song may be performed live and simultaneously recorded).

Songs may also appear in plays, musical theatre, stage shows of any form, and within operas.