Soria Moria
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I've been wanting to learn how audio compression specifically decreases audio quality. Every article I can find is just an audio compression 101 over-simplified piece that tells you it discards unimportant data, which is vague. From personally listening to compressed audio I've come to the conclusion that it just decreases the dynamic range, is that true? If you've ever played the game Skyrim, you might have noticed that the audio bitrate in it is very low at 48kbit. When people are doing nothing but speaking, I barely hear a difference and it sounds okay, but when music is playing and gets loud it's extremely noticeable. Example video:
Have I understood the effects of audio compression or is there more to it?
Thanks.
Thanks.