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> You don't need to understand how media is encoded to watch a movie or listen to a song.

I recall the time when mp3 was to demanding for many CPUs, so you had to convert to non-compressed formats. Today you do need to know that downloading non-compressed audio will cost you a lot of network traffic. Once performance is a concern, all abstractions have to be discarded.




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