∞ Apple lossless compression tests

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Kirk McElhearn:

Just as when you compress a text file using zip compression, decompressing returns all the original letters and characters, lossless music compression provides the full fidelity of the original audio you compressed.

Nice compression overview.


  • http://twitter.com/grossumx Grossu Maxim

    We need more people that can explain technical things as simple as they are and not as complex as they look like.

    • http://twitter.com/VGISoftware Daniel Swanson

      Look up the words you don’t understand, and the apparent complexity will diminish and/or vanish.

  • http://mangochut.net/ mangochutney

    This is one of the reasons why iTunes Match will be less useful to me than the average consumer:
    iTunes is certainly going to find lots of matches in the iTunes Store database, but “swapping” ALAC compressed files for 256 kbit/s AAC files simply doesn’t cut it.
    I’m going to end up having to upload large parts of my library anyways —thank Q for 6 Mbit/s upstream.

    Fun sidenote: I once used a special type of metal for this kind of compression comparison (speed metal accompanied by an entire classical orchestra). Most songs clocked in at an average of 900 kbit/s O_O