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Correction for the amount of a MP3 Song

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How much is 2,500 octets?
It's about one-one-thousand-five-hundredth as much as a MP3 Song
The amount of a MP3 Song is about 3,000,000 octets.
(a.k.a. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, a.k.a. MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3) (128 Kbps, "near-CD-quality"; 3 minutes duration; average)
A three-minute song of typical quality will be about 3,000,000 octets when encoded into MP3 format. The song Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega was used by AT&T-Bell Labs engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg to test the compression process and is considered the first MP3 song.
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