Intelligent Sound

Audio compression involves data compression to reduce the transmission bandwidth requirement of digital audio streams and the storage size of audio files. Lossless compression produces digital data that can be expanded to an exact duplicate of the original audio stream. Compression ratios of lossless compression formats are similar to those for generic lossless data compression and yield around 50-60% of the original size.

Uncompressed audio files are digital representations of soundwave, which are most accurate. However, it can be a resource-intensive method of recording and storing digital audio, in terms of storage and management. They are generally the master audio formats of choice as they are suitable for archiving and delivering audio at high resolution due to their accuracy. They are also suitable when working with audio at a professional level.