Archives for sound compression

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/19/15

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

We compress sound files into lossy formats such as mp3. The assumption is that most of what is thrown away in the process we humans couldn’t hear anyway. Maybe not. Here’s why.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 1/29/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Well, we’ve looked at compression for text and for graphics: next on the list, sound, and sound compression is a whole different ball of wax. Here’s why…