It’s very likely you’ll have seen the term ‘lossless audio’ bandied around in the music space in recent years, but is it ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

Spotify announced a new Lossless Listening feature, which uses audio files that are compressed to retain all of songs' ...

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Lossless Listening is available on Spotify mobile, tablet and desktop apps. When Lossless Listening is enabled, an icon will ...

Sharing large files with friends, families, and even business associates over the web is no easy task. Yes, you could use a cloud storage platform, but who wants to waste time downloading large files ...

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Digitized mammograms are actually interpreted more accurately by radiologists once they have been "compressed." Though compression strips away much of the original data, it still leaves intact those ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

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