Trend of MP3 Converter

You might not be sure about what MPEG-1 Layer 3 is. But you certainly know far well what mp3 is. Actually, you must have been listening to mp3 songs every day. And maybe change mp3 players sometimes and use mp3 converters occasionally or frequently. 

Being an open standard, and therefore available to anyone, mp3 has played a major role in the digital music trends. Mp3 is now undoubtedly the most universal and popular audio format in the world. However, if you thought mp3 converter is unnecessary, then you were wrong. You will even be astonished by the reality.

We took a research on search volume of “mp3 converter” and the search volume trends of “mp3 converter”, extensive relative keywords are counted in this research. The mp3 converter search trends study was carried out on Dec 9, 2007. The charts below are based on the data generated by Google Keyword Tool.

Chart 1 Search volume trends of “mp3 converter”

It’s interesting to learn from Graphic 1 that although it has been down somewhat since Mar 2007, mp3 converter retains very hot search trends, with average popularity index above 0.6. In the forth quarter of 2007, more and more people searched for mp3 converter.

You may argue that, with the keyword “mp3 converter”, what these people really look for is the software that can concert other formats of audio to mp3, not the software to convert mp3 audio to other formats. Such possibility shall not be denied. Nonetheless, let’s take a look of Chart 2, Chart 3 and Chart 4.

Chart 2 Search volume trends of “mp3 converter” part 1

Chart 3 Search volume trends of “mp3 converter” part 2

Chart 4 Search volume trends of “mp3 converter” part 3

Apparently, even though mp3 is much more popular than any other audio format in the world and in the history, mp3 files are converted to other not-as-popular-as-mp3 audio formats for various purposes.

On top the chart is mp3 to wav converter. WAV (Waveform audio format) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard. The sound quality of wav audio is was good as CD and it can be edited in most audio editing software platforms. Those who convert mp3 to wav must be audio professionals or musicians.

The next 10 hot keywords people use in search for m3p converter respectively are, mp3 to wma converter, mp3 to aiff, mp3 to ape, mp3 to audio converter, mp3 to m4a converter, mp3 to midi converter, mp3 to rm converter, mp3 to aac converter, mp3 to ac3 and mp3 to amr converter.

The most interesting thing is “mp3 convertor”. This phrase gets 0.4 point of average search popularity, comparing to 0.6 point of “mp3 converter”. See how many of Internet users in North America and the United Kingdom misspell the word “converter” as “convertor”!

Notes:

1 Results of mp3 converter search volume trends are tailored to English, based on the area of the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

2 The (x) axis is the time scale, from 06’Dec to 07’Nov. And the (y) axis is the search trends popularity index, the hottest search get fully 1 point, descending all the way down, to 0 with no search record.

3 These solutions are suggested for converting mp3 to other formats only, although most of the above audio converters can converter other formats to mp3. We will discuss converting other formats to mp3 in other reviews.

4 The above list of software solutions for 28 searched demands concerning mp3 converters is based on our previous reviews on audio converters and the analyst on Internet resource. Some of the converters and promised conversion between audio formats have not been tested by our board of editors. We present such list of solutions for your reference only. Please try any mp3 converter before buy.