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What makes an audio format lossless?<\/h2>\n
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What makes an audio format lossless?
\nThe best audio formats for your music library<\/p>\n

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You might think of the word “lossless” as being used for audio formats that don’t use any kind of compression. However, even lossless audio formats use compression to reduce file sizes to reasonable levels.<\/p>\n

Lossless formats use compression algorithms to save audio data so that the audio is exactly the same as the original source. This contrasts sharply with lossy audio formats like AAC, MP3, and WMA, which use algorithms that discard data to compress the audio. Audio files consist of sounds and silences. Lossless formats can compress silence to almost zero space while preserving all sound data, making them smaller than uncompressed files.
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What lossless format is commonly used for digital music?
\nPopular lossless formats for storing music include:<\/p>\n

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\nThe effect of lossless formats on music quality
\nIf you are downloading lossless music tracks from an HD music service, you would expect the sound quality to be really high. On the other hand, if you digitize a low-quality music box using a lossless audio format, the audio quality will not improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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