New compression technique makes music files 1000 times smaller than MP3s

by Raj on April 2, 2008

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This isn’t exactly about compressing an already existing music file into a highly compressed audio file, but a different kind of method that involves recreation of music that results in a music file that’s 1000 times smaller than a comparable MP3 file.

Researchers from University of Rochester have come up with a way to recreate the music in the same way a piano player re-creates a piano piece from a roll of punched paper. This technique was demonstrated by encoding a 20 seconds clarinet solo in less than a Kilobyte.

» More about this music compression technique @ [InformationWeek]

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    • 1 Comment »

    1. Binny V A Said,

      April 4, 2008 @ 1:40 am

      Midi format does something like this - but it cannot have human voice in it.

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