Researchers Compress Music Files 1000 Times Smaller Than MP3s
University of Rochester researchers on Tuesday said they have come up with a way to reproduce music into a computer file that's 1,000 times smaller than a comparable high-quality MP3 file.
The researchers demonstrated their methods by encoding a 20-second clarinet solo in less than a single kilobyte.
The technique involved isn't an audio recording technology; rather, it re-creates the clarinet solo in the same way that a player piano re-creates a piano piece from a roll of punched paper. But in addition to re-creating the notes, it also re-creates the way in which the player played the notes.
