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WAV files are typically large in file size due to the high quality the format and are used for CDs. An average pop music song is around 50MB in size. WAV files can be made smaller and converted to MP3 format through a process called encoding. This process always yields some kind of quality degradation, depending on how much compression is applied. When MP3 is converted to WAV, the process is called decoding. When MP3 is decoded to WAV, there is no increase in sound quality whatsoever, the file merely increases in size and can be read by common CD players. CD rippers (or CD recorders / extractors), are software programs that record CD audio to WAV format on your hard drive.

Conventional WAV files are not compressed. For sound or music of any significant duration, WAV files are huge.
The size of a normal good quality WAV file is very roughly 10MB per minute of sound or music, whereas that of the equivalent MP3 file is very roughly 1MB per minute. In other words, the MP3 file is very roughly one tenth of the size of the equivalent WAV file, with no discernible difference in quality. However, the compression ratio does depend on the nature of the sound or music recorded in the file and therefore can differ.
The much smaller size of MP3 files makes it feasible to store them on the sizes of hard disks commonly found on modern PC's and also to download them via the Internet within a reasonable time, even with only a modem connection.

In order to download MP3 files you need exactly the same things that you need to download any other types of files:
A suitable computer with a connection to the Internet, via a local area network or a modem, etc.
A web browser such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Opera, or an FTP program such as Ipswich's excellent WS_FTP. Using a web browser to download files is much simpler than using an FTP program.
Enough hard disk space to store the file.