I always heard that its bad to recompress a compressed audio file because it makes it sound like crap, but I used to do it with MP3s I downloaded at a high bit rate (196) and I wanted to standardize ...

Apple's AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) audio files are valued for their lossless and uncompressed attributes. But because no audio quality is lost in the encoding process, AIFF's can be rather ...

Lossless data compression of digital audio signals is useful when it is necessary to minimize the storage space or transmission bandwidth of audio data while still maintaining archival quality.