How is sound stored and transmitted digitally?

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When storing images the picture is separated into pixels, and the pixels’ colors can be defined with the RGB scale. So the computer can digitally store and send images as numbers. How does it do the same with sound files?

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These answers seem to be forgetting the ‘li5’ part. Let me start by explaining how sound is recorded. Sound vibrates a magnet in a microphone. That vibration is transferred into voltage variations(vv). This all happens in your mic. The vvs travel down the mic cable and from there is ran through a box that encrypts the intensity of the vvs as good ‘ol 1s and 0s. From there, it can be stored as data in a computer. You basically use the same process in reverse to go through the speakers. That’s why there are magnets in speakers. Hope this helps [:
(This is fairly generalized and there are different variables, but to sum it up, the computer doesn’t see music, it sees voltage variations.)

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