the.com/audio formats
the eternal argument over how much of the music you're allowed to throw away.
means a set of rules for squeezing sound into a file, trading fidelity for size or vice versa.
from born from the 1990s need to fit songs onto floppy disks and dial-up connections, mp3 won by being good enough and small enough, not by being best.
lossy mathmp3 deletes sounds humans barely notice, permanently
cd standard44.1khz was chosen partly for video tape compatibility
vinyl revivalanalog format outsold cds in the us in 2020
flac sizelossless files run 5 to 10 times mp3 size
for instance
mp3 — 1993 german invention, still the internet's default handshake
flac — free lossless codec, audiophile forums' favorite argument starter
dolby atmos — object-based sound used in over 30,000 theaters worldwide
wav — uncompressed windows format, basically digital vinyl