Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

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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.

Apple did its part in moving the world to wireless headphones. With the removal of the headphone jack with iPhone 7, the company made it clear that the future of audio is wireless. However, the ...

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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Streaming services and hi-fi brands now promote “lossless” music as the new gold standard, promising studio-grade sound in your living room, on your commute, and even from your phone. Behind the ...

Can your ears tell the difference between a lossless and lossy song? I’m talking about the difference between audio that’s been compressed in a way that preserves the original audio data perfectly ...

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We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

It used to be that memory and storage space were so precious and so limited of a resource that handling nontrivial amounts of text was a serious problem. Text compression was a highly practical ...