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Technology research firm Webnoize said in a report this week that the number of files traded on the Napster service has steadily declined, from a peak of 2.79 billion in February to 2.49 billion in March and 1.59 billion in April. MP3 is a compression format that turns music into small digital files. It has spurred an explosion in the sharing of songs online over the past two years, with Napster by far the most popular service. Since then, Napster has instituted a screening mechanism designed to block the trading of files by artists ranging from ABBA to Frank Zappa, constantly tweaking the filters to detect intentional misspellings. The average number of simultaneous Napster users had also fallen to 1.06 million by the end of April, down 16 percent from March.