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The [COMPRESSED] History of Mastering

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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How Does Lossy Data Compression Work?

When MP3's came on the scene, they figured out that you could apply algorithms that would take out a huge amount of the music. At higher quality settings, most people probably won't notice any loss in sound quality. But when you compress the file down enough, the sound really starts to suffer. The other thing that you hear as the data rate goes down is extra mulch to use a technical term.

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