Standard sample rates. There are different standard sample rates, and they are listed above. You’ve often seen 44.1kHz, this is what’s used in “CD quality music”.

Sampling rate is directly related to frequency, in other words the highest sound that can be accurately reproduced. Let’s look at the common 44.1kHz figure we discussed earlier.

Contrary to nearly everyone’s opinion of what ‘8-bit’ music is, it’s actually the sample rate that makes music sound like a cassette deck jury rigged into a Nintendo Entertainment System.

The first of these is sampling rate. We’ve covered what this is here, but for a short summary it’s the number of “samples” taken per second from an analog sound wave to turn it digital.

Click the "Format" drop-down menu, and then click the sample rate you want to use, such as "32000.0 Hz" or "96000.0 Hz." The higher the sample rate, the better the sound quality will be.

To get the bit rate, you take the sample rate and multiply it by the bit depth. You then take that product and multiply it by the number of channels of the audio (typically 2). Lastly, take that ...