Be careful though….
Companies may bring to market products that do not follow standards or that use proprietary encoding techniques.
- For example “Real Audio” files can only be played with the “Real” player.
- What happens if another product comes along that is better? Do you want to re-digitize and re-encode all your sounds?
As a precaution, keep copies of things you digitize so if you need to change later you’ll be able to!
Better yet stick with standards based products.
- Today that is difficult to do however.