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With lossless audio coming to Spotify Premium, this high-fidelity audio option is now available to most music streaming subscribers on big services. That's great in principle, but is it worth ...

When designers talk about data compression these days, typically they are thinking about highly-evolved lossy compression algorithms for particular media data types: MP-3 for audio, for example, or ...