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    Beauty hunter Senior Member Raz's Avatar
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    IIRC, the sound you lose is at the frequency that the normal human cannot hear. Which is why MP3 is now much more common in video games with MIDI close too.

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    It provides a representation of sound within a short term time/frequency analysis window, by using psychoacoustic models to discard or reduce precision of components less audible to human hearing, and recording the remaining information in an efficient manner. This is relatively similar to the principles used by JPEG, an image compression format.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raz
    IIRC, the sound you lose is at the frequency that the normal human cannot hear. Which is why MP3 is now much more common in video games with MIDI close too.
    You can hear the difference (even the wiki article says less audible to human hearing not normal human cannot hear), but of course it partly depends on the quality of your playback system and the sound being reproduced. MP3 is a lossy compression algorithm and an area where people, in general, have accepted lower quality in music playback. The highest mp3 bit rate is 360 kbit/sec, and at that point you might as well go to a lossless algorithm such as FLAC. An audio CD is 1,411 kbit/s which some audiophiles still consider to be inadequate for full fidelity. I don't know the bit rate of the wav files used in Shogun, but wav can equal or exceed CD audio.
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    Hello,

    Apart from the losing quality issue, I think it makes it more difficult to get the copy installed and working.
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