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Published Monday, September 01, 2008

Audio coding has been around the professional sound industry since the early 1990s. Codec developers have been and continue to be on a fast track. Whereas the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) once viewed audio quality to be excellent at 256kb/s and 128kb/s, it now offers the same judgment at much lower bit-rates. It's much easier to improve the data payload, as compared to expanding the pipe. To accomplish this requires using lower bit-rate codecs. Lowering the bit-rate increases potential degradation of audio performance. Advancement of codec design has allowed lower bit-rates to be employed, ...

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