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lossy audio compression

Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.

Last updated: 2001-12-24

Nearby terms:

lossy ♦ lossy audio compression ♦ lost in the noise ♦ lost in the underflow

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