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Old 01-24-2008, 06:42 PM
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They have the same information, but the lossless is compressed. This is just like zipping a word document, when you unzip it all of the information is still there.

Lossy codecs, like aac and mp3 throw out some of the data, mostly stuff you cant hear, and then compress the music.

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