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The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

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Why is music compressed with lossy codecs down to low bitrates in modern games?

Larger sizes cost money and slow down downloads. That matters. When you have a game that has multiple music tracks compressing down lossily can save many megabytes (even gigabytes if you include aud …
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