34. The apparatus as in claim 33 wherein the bookkeeping data having the first format comprises a priming value indicating a start of the compressed audio data within the first audio file and a remainder value specifying an end of the compressed audio data within the first audio file.
33. The apparatus as in claim 25 comprising additional program code to cause the processor to perform the operations of: translating the universal representation of the first audio file into a second audio file, the second audio file comprising audio data compressed using the first compression algorithm but bookkeeping data having a third format, the bookkeeping data specifying a location of the compressed audio data within the second audio file.