How can you compress sound without losing something? I guess ill have to read the websites you have posted.

I haven't read those websites, but I can compress a .WAV file simply by running PKZip on the thing. Not by much, but it's still compression. I'm assuming that those websites have lossless compression algorithms that are somehow tweaked for audio data and can do better than PKZip or Rar?

The only reason for lossy compression is to significantly reduce the file size or the required data bandwidth. There are hard mathematical limits to just how much you can compress something using lossless methods. But when you use a lossy algorithm, you trade loss of quality for compression, and the amount of compression you can achieve becomes a sliding scale between 0% and 100%.



Tony Fabris
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