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Does converting WAV to MP3 reduce the sound quality?

April 26, 2017converting mp3 quality reduce sound wav

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Does converting WAV to MP3 reduce the sound quality?

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MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm which reduces the amount of data required to represent the audio recording. This reduction slightly reduces the sound quality, however with higher bit rates (256 kBit/s or more) it is very difficult to distinguish between the MP3 and the original recording.