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The digital realm is filled with formats and not all of them work on all devices, which can cause serious frustration in an age where users wish to make their devices universal. iPhones and iPads still have no support for flash, despite YouTube being one of the most popular websites in the world, and mp4s have only just found support outside of QuickTime. As software providers seem to be slow in providing universal support for the huge volume of different codecs out there, Convert Audio Free has launched a video converter that can create a copy of a video in any format, to any other format.

More than 500 million devices are currently flash enabled, and it’s no surprise as flash is used by YouTube, one of the most popular websites on the internet. Flash video is the standard format in which people view most of the content they find on the internet, and is also a program used by animators to create moving images. Flash video, or FLV, is not however supported by most basic home systems when not viewed through the internet. This has traditionally made viewing videos offline a challenge, but Convert Audio Free has entered the market with a range of free FLV converters so that users can download and convert YouTube videos to play on mobile and offline devices.

MP3 is now by far and away the most popular format for storing sound files, though this wasn’t always the case. Though for specialists and purists formats like WAV and FLAC have found their niches, nothing matches MP3 for versatility and universality. In order to allow people to make the best of MP3, Convert Audio Free has launched a service which allows people to convert files from any number of formats into high quality MP3s, without losing their original files.

Windows Media Audio (or WMA) is a very common audio format. Initially developed by Microsoft, many audio files have been distributed in this format. This is partly due to the fact that Windows Media Player automatically encodes the audio files from CDs into WMA files. This can be very frustrating for users of MP3 players that don’t support WMA format, such as the Apple iPod.

FLV (or Flash Video) files are now the number one file format for video on the web. They are used by all of the largest video sites, including YouTube, Hulu, Vimeo, VEVO and many others. One of the most popular uses for YouTube, and many other video sites, is the hosting of music files. However playing these files anywhere other than YouTube is extremely difficult. The easiest way to get these music files off the sites is to use an FLV to MP3 converter. When the files are in MP3 format, they can be listened to as easily as MP3s.

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a file format that allows audio files to be reproduced with none of the loss of frequency associated with MP3 or other audio files. This means the files are reproduced exactly as they are on the CD. Audiophiles and people with extremely high quality audio equipment love these files for their authentic reproduction. However the files are large and cannot be played in most portable MP3 players. This means that a lot of people with FLAC files have a need to convert them to MP3 at some stage.

In the early days of computers, there were only a few different audio file formats available to users. Today, there are hundreds of different types of audio files available on the internet. From the ubiquitous MP3 file format to more obscure formats like FLAC, users have plenty of options when it comes to listening to their music.