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...Machine-learning algorithms are also used to enhance streaming quality by monitoring a user’s internet connection and tailoring the audio bitrate accordingly....
...Amazon on Friday added that it had “already begun the effort to reduce streaming bitrates whilst maintaining a quality streaming experience for our customers” in Europe....
...It found that, at an MP3 bitrate of about 256 kb/s (versus 1,411 kb/s for a CD), even trained sound engineers could barely distinguish between the two file formats across genres....
...The higher the bitrate of a file, the more detailed the sounds. Deezer’s high rate is more than four times the top bitrate of Spotify....
...Advocates of the US National Broadband Plan (NBP) responded by pooh-poohing the importance of bitrates (“speed”) and stressing instead progress in the applications and penetrations of broadband connectivity...
...The music plays at roughly the same bitrate (a measure of sound quality) as the standard desktop player, around 160 kbps, although premium subscribers get up to 320 kbps on the PC....
...If a music shop were able to provide downloads of at least the majority of songs you might have heard on the radio or TV, in the format and bitrate of your choice, uncrippled by DRM - then they would have...
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