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From: myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui)
Subject: Re: Compression of 16-bit sound files.
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References: <1991Apr17.140822.23647@thebox.rain.com> <D88-JWA.91Apr20210702@byse.nada.kth.se> <1991Apr21.002203.4414@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 91 02:02:31 GMT

In article <1991Apr21.002203.4414@nntp-server.caltech.edu> madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
[...]
>Yes, they store 16-bit samples (one per channel) with no compression.
>However, they could have done a lossless compression, using differential
>methods, and gotten about twice the time (well over two hours) on a CD.

I wonder why no compression was used? Certainly the IC technology at that time
was advanced enough to have made it a cheap proposition. The FIR (I guess...)
filters used to interpolate between samples in most CD players must take up at
least as much silicon as a delta-modulation decoder.

      Michael MY Hui      Ottawa Canada      myhui@bnr.ca