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The original CDs that you purchase are uncompressed. Most commercially produced CDs use the Red Book Audio standard—a standard that specifies the PCM file format. PCM format stores raw data with no compression and no loss of information. AIFF and WAV files commonly use the PCM format. Uncompressed files take up a lot of space.
