Music download

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player, or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with the MP3 audio coding format. or using the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes.