3rd April 2005, 3:06 PM
Ah audio compression...
Try zip file compression. That is lossless audio compression right there. Zip compression NEEDS to be lossless. All data is exactly the same, so if it had loss, your word documents would be missing letters, your programs wouldn't work, and lots of other stuff.
No such thing as lossless compression.... pfft... it's easy. Basically just replace large sequences of bits with a notation stating how long the repeating bits last. Now, I'm not saying lossless compression does a very good job or anything :D.
Try zip file compression. That is lossless audio compression right there. Zip compression NEEDS to be lossless. All data is exactly the same, so if it had loss, your word documents would be missing letters, your programs wouldn't work, and lots of other stuff.
No such thing as lossless compression.... pfft... it's easy. Basically just replace large sequences of bits with a notation stating how long the repeating bits last. Now, I'm not saying lossless compression does a very good job or anything :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)