Ask the iTunes Guy: Encoding miracles and missing audiobook chapters<article>
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It’s easy to forget that some of the technology we use is, to paraphrase a great author, nearly indistinguishable from voodoo. One reader wrote in asking for some clarification about lossless compression, and I explain the magic in this week’s column. I also look at a question about iOS device backups, and one about missing audiobook chapters in iOS.</p><h2>It must be magic</h2>
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<strong>Q: I read your column regularly, and really appreciated your
recent explanation of AIFF, WAV, and Apple Lossless formats. But I don’t get it; how can the file size of Apple Lossless be half that of AIFF without some voodoo going on? </strong></p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2466712/ask-the-itunes-guy-encoding-miracles-and-missing-audiobook-chapters.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Ask the iTunes Guy: Encoding miracles and missing audiobook chapters
