Everything gets streamed these days, and almost all streaming platforms use lossy data encoding: mp3, AAC, OGG etc (OMG!)

And these lossy codecs do a pretty remarkable result of preserving the quality, considering they strip out anywhere between 60-90% of the original data. But it’s not perfect - far from it ! In this show we talk about:

* How your audio can be damaged by lossy data encoding

* Why this happens

* How you can test for it yourself

* Why it’s worth doing

* How it can help you hear the artefacts for yourself

* Whether we should optimise our audio to avoid them and (most importantly!)

* The two simple steps you can take to minimise these problems and help your audio SURVIVE streaming

Full show notes on our website

http://themasteringshow.com/episode-62

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