Compression algorithms for speech, audio, still images, and video are quite complicated and, more importantly, nearly always lossy. Thus, samples often change dramatically once they’re decompressed.

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.

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Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get ...

SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / September 18, 2023 / IKIN™, a leading provider of visual technology solutions for businesses and consumers, announced a breakthrough in the lossless compression and ...

Real-life data confirms (or contradicts) theoretically derived predictions. In a world seemingly obsessed with lossy compression, lossless codecs also have a place. CPUs’ multimedia-tuned features can ...

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Most people have downloaded large files, such as music or video, from the Internet. Because of the large size of these files, downloading them can take hours. To solve this problem, and make better ...