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Curlie - Computers: Multimedia: Music and Audio: Audio Formats: MP3 ...
Encoding means changing an audio file from perhaps WAV format (the most common) into a compressed MP3 file - most the programs in this category are made to carry out this task. Decoding means decompressing a MP3 file into an uncompressed format such as WAV - that is, going the opposite way to encoding.