In the Introduction, it is mentioned that the electronic digital computer was originally conceived as a fast, reliable calculating machine. It did not take computer users long to realize that a computer can also store and process nonnumeric data. The term “multimedia,” which became popular in the 1990s, refers to the ability to digitize, store, and manipulate in the computer all kinds of data, not just numbers. Previous chapters discussed digital images and methods for their compression, and this chapter concentrates on audio data.
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(2008). Audio Compression. In: A Concise Introduction to Data Compression. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-072-8_6
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