Hello, i’m trying to understand what a file format is, what it means, and what the sorrounding context is.
when people talk about a file format, are they really just referring to any type of file?
mp4 is a file format?
mp3 is a file format?
pdf is a file format?
txt is a file format?
doc is a file format?
is that what people are talking about when they say “file formats”? just different types of files that can or should be opened by different programs?
thank you
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consider how you can aquire your favorite artist/album/song: will it be on vinyl, 8-track, cassette tape, on CD, or digitial download?
It’s the same ‘song’, in different formats. An argument can then be made about which format preserves the most ‘data’ of the original (aka, what sounds best)
Digital data is often similar — it can be encoded in a variety of different file formats — but just as you wouldn’t have any success cramming an 8-track into a VCR, the specifics of the file format dictate how you interact with that data.
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