Mp3 has become the shorthand term for the conversion and compression process of audio-classes, music and audiobooks.

This industry-accepted process, with a number of variations, makes audio small enough to easily reach your computer through the Internet. For example, a 4-minute song will use 40 mb of space or 1/20th of a cd’s capacity. As an mp3 file, it will use only 4mb, or 1/200th of a cd’s capacity, which makes it practical and easy for home computers to download, play and store multiple classes and songs.

Day or night, in seconds, you can click on an aishaudio class and hear it free online from your computer. The software your computer needs to play it is free and is usually installed along with your system. With a faster phone line you can download a 1-hour class in minutes, then either burn it to a cd or transfer the file to a portable mp3 player that connects with a simple wire to your computer. In a short time, you can have many hours of Jewish wisdom loaded onto an mp3 player and ready to go anywhere, anytime.

We offer 2 bandwidths of audio classes:
High band - mp3 (32-bit) better sound quality, but takes longer to download.
Low band - WMA (12-bit) telephone quality sound, but downloads much quicker.

After the short time it takes to download your audio choices, you can immediately listen offline from your computer, burn to a cd, or transfer classes quickly to an mp3 player to hear it with headphones or play it through your car stereo system with a simple FM beamer.

A download can be anything from a single picture to an entire program that is transferred to your computer through a modem from the Internet.