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Compression

(1) The process of reducing the amplitude range of an audio signal by reducing the peaks and bringing up the low levels. (2) The process of reducing a data file in size, often by noting patterns in the data and summarizing them. Some types of audio data compression are "lossy", meaning the quality of the audio is reduced.

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