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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by naushniki on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:34PM (#20670986)
A friend of mine "copied" a bunch of songs from an audio CD to a floppy disk this way.
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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by zuuow on Sunday August 11, 2019 @06:49PM (#20671051)
A guy I knew used to reencode his songs as 16 kbps mp3 files to save space. When I told him they sounded horrible, he told me "no problem, I can always reencode them back to 128 kbps!"
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