A raw digital sound file samples a sound wave at some interval and measures the height of the wave at each point. Thus, raw sound is recorded as a list of numbers. In very broad terms the MPS audio compression algorithm identifies frequencies and volume levels, - low and high - that are outside the range of human hearing and removes the data representing these frequencies from original. This technique results in a smaller audio file that sounds exactly the same to the human ear.

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