Audio files take up a significant amount of space on the HDD. This causes a number of problems and inconveniences, the main ones being that sending such files over the network is extremely difficult because their size is too large.
This problem can be solved by specially developed audio codecs, which allow encoding audio and decoding it during playback. Thus, audio files take up much less space on the HDD and are very easy to transfer over the network. The most popular audio codecs are typically: ACELP.live, AAC, AIF, AU, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, RA, RAM.
Codecs allow compressing audio files in such a way as to significantly reduce their size without losing quality. And during playback of these audio files, decoding technology is used. Thus, codecs represent and are essentially methods of encoding and decoding information, or more precisely, audio information. The program K-Lite Mega Codec Pack allows you to install the most popular audio codecs, integrating these codecs into the system.
How to see which codecs are installed?
You need to right-click on the "My Computer" shortcut, usually located on the desktop, and then open the computer's properties. In the computer properties, go to the "Hardware" tab and open "Device Manager".
In the Device Manager, find the option "Sound, video and game controllers" and open it. In the list that appears, you will find the items Audio/Video codecs.
To see the list of codecs, you should open the properties of one or another item.
Also, to see the list of codecs, you can use the CodecInstaller utility, which will automatically display the list of codecs and allow you to work with them.
