This document examines audio devices, formats, and codecs. It discusses common audio devices like microphones, which convert sound waves to electrical signals, and loud speakers, which do the opposite. It also covers sound cards, ports, and headphones. The document explores lossy and lossless codecs used to compress audio files. Finally, it reviews major uncompressed, lossless compressed, and lossy compressed sound formats like WAV, MP3, and MIDI.