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'''Lossless''' describes a way of compressing data which still keeps all the data. If you have a compressed file, you can use it to create an exact copy of the source file.

'''Lossy''' is the opposite to Lossless. Some data is discarded. This makes the file a lot smaller, but reduces the [[quality]] of the audio slightly.

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Lossy !!Lossless
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| width=50% | [[MP3]], [[Vorbis]], [[AAC]], [[WMA]], All [[codecs|video codecs]].
| width=50% | [[WAVE]], [[FLAC]]
|}