History of Audio compression

	Revision 11 . . November 28, 2001 4:15 pm by RobLa [Merged audio codec page into this page]
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A form of data compression designed to reduce the size of computer audio data files. As with other specific forms of data compression, there exist many "lossless" and "lossy" algorithms to acheive the compression effect.

A form of data compression designed to reduce the size of computer audio data files. Audio compression algorithms are typically referred to as audio codecs. As with other specific forms of data compression, there exist many "lossless" and "lossy" algorithms to acheive the compression effect.

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See also: psychoacoustics, audio codecs, audio file format, audio signal processing, data compression

Examples Some examples of popular audio codecs are: * MP3 (MPEG-1 layer 3 audio codec) * AAC? (advanced audio codec) * Vorbis * WMA (windows media, based on AAC) Other examples can be found on the codec page. See also: psychoacoustics, audio file format, audio signal processing, data compression, video file formats, [audio storage]?, codec, digital signal processing, speech coding