The results are predictable, but impressive. [Sean]’s aim was to try and fit roughly 45 minutes of audio on to a 1.44 MB floppy disk. To pull this off, he looked far and wide for a codec fitting ...

Before we get right to it, a bit of background. Essentially, Dolby is an audio compression technology – it makes sound like movie soundtracks, which is designed for vast rooms and huge ...

Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end.