What is the difference between uncompressed and “lossless” audio?
Uncompressed audio is true to the original master with a sample bit rate of 48khz without any compression. “Lossless” means that the audio has been compressed and placed in a file which then expands to playback audio as it was before compressed, hence the name “lossless”. In the same way that large files can be “zipped” using winzip to email and then “unzipped” when received, the files remain the same. Ultimately uncompressed audio is the best option to preserve sound quality and enable easy authoring because there is no need to compress the audio.
