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=== Background ===
* Digital sound is typically represented, uncompressed, as signed 16-bit integer signal samples. There are two streams of samples, one each for the left and right stereo channels, at typical sample rates of 44.1 or 48 thousand samples (kHz)per second per channel, for a total of 88.2 or 96 thousand samples per second (kHz). Since there are 16 bits (2 bytes) per sample, the data rate is 88.2 * 1000 * 2 = 176,400 bytes/second (~172 KiB/sec) or 96 * 1000 * 2 = 192,000 bytes/second (~187.5 KiB/sec).
* To change the volume of sound, each sample can be scaled (multiplied) by a volume factor, in the range of 0.00 (silence) to 1.00 (full volume).
* On a mobile device, the amount of processing required to scale sound will affect battery life.
