50 MB MP3 sample

An MP3 file of exactly 52,428,800 bytes. It is a valid MPEG-1 Audio Layer III file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 50 MB sample, test or dummy MP3 file.

sample-mp3-50mb.mp3

50 MB52,428,800 bytes

Download 50 MB MP3

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Type: audio/mpeg
SHA-256: 44188952fac7e862d7eed02852ff9eef5d35a29b2a701808134b8eca467009f1
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

125,440 MPEG audio frames (54 min 37 s) of a synthesised musical phrase that repeats every eight seconds, after an ID3v2.3 tag. 91 bytes of zeros in the tag's standard padding area bring the file to the exact size.

Duration	54 min 37 s
Bit rate	128 kbit/s constant
Sample rate	44,100 Hz
Channels	Stereo
Format	MPEG-1 Audio Layer III
Tags	ID3v2.3 (title, artist, album, genre)

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-mp3-50mb.mp3 as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The MP3 signature is 49 44 33.

00000000  49 44 33 03 00 00 00 00  01 43 54 49 54 32 00 00 |ID3......CTIT2..|
00000010  00 13 00 00 00 53 61 6d  70 6c 65 20 4d 50 33 20 |.....Sample MP3 |
00000020  28 35 30 20 4d 42 29 54  50 45 31 00 00 00 10 00 |(50 MB)TPE1.....|
00000030  00 00 53 61 6d 70 6c 65  54 65 73 74 46 69 6c 65 |..SampleTestFile|

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Where 50 MB matters

A 52,428,800-byte file: exactly the size at which Git hosting on GitHub starts warning about large files, and about the limit for a zipped AWS Lambda package uploaded directly.

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Use this file for

Measuring download speed from your own server or CDN
Testing transcoding and podcast pipelines
Testing audio upload and playback

Testing notes for MP3

A large ID3 tag with artwork can push the first audio frame far into the file, confusing naive sniffers.
Duration is not stored in a header. Players estimate it from bit rate and file size, which goes wrong for variable-bit-rate files that lack a Xing header.

MP3 format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-mp3-50mb.mp3
Format	MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III)
Extension	.mp3
MIME type	audio/mpeg
Size	52,428,800 bytes (50 MB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	49 44 33
SHA-256	44188952fac7e862d7eed02852ff9eef5d35a29b2a701808134b8eca467009f1
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Audio

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 50 MB?: Yes. It is 52,428,800 bytes, which is 50 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 50 MB MP3 file?: 125,440 MPEG audio frames (54 min 37 s) of a synthesised musical phrase that repeats every eight seconds, after an ID3v2.3 tag. 91 bytes of zeros in the tag's standard padding area bring the file to the exact size.
What is on the MP3 samples?: A short synthesised musical phrase that repeats. It was generated by code for this site, so it is free of any music copyright.

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