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CD-quality stereo audio requires a bit rate of 1.411200 Mbps (2 x 16 bits x 44.1 kHz). A single-speed CD-ROM can only transfer at a rate of 1.5 Mbps and this rate must include both audio and video. Thus, there is a great need for compression of both the video and audio data. The need to compress high-quality audio is also an increasing need as consumers expect higher-quality sound from TV systems and the increasing usage of digital audio radio.
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Buchanan, B. (1999). Audio Compression (MPEG-Audio and Dolby AC-3). In: Handbook of Data Communications and Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0905-6_11
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