lossy audio compression

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lossy audio compression - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  lossy audio compression
  
     <audio, compression> Any audio compression algorithm which
     does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal
     that sounds more or less like the original.  Examples are
     MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.
  
     (2001-12-24)