> Lossless compression is what people generally call programs like WinZip.
> When you compress a file with WinZip, it takes up less space and when you
> decompress it you get the exact same data that you compressed. In other
> words, it doesn't lose any data in the compression and decompression
> process.
Right. Your analogy to WinZip gets me wonderin'...
Does any loseless compression algorithm require the entire set of data for
read access before it begins compression? If you wanted to encode audio with
a loseless compression, could you do it in real-time or would you need to
wait until the entire recording is complete, and then compress afterwards?
Would the results be as good in real-time than as a post-process?
> This is, coincidentally, why audio MD equipment would be very poor for
> data storage. I believe this has been discussed on-list a few times.
...and if I understand correctly, data would have to be encoded into some
sort of audio stream designed to be completely loseless when converted with
ATRAC, right? ...or maybe embed some sort of error-correction mechanism...?
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