are you trying to sound like an anime villain
I seldom watch anime nowadays because most of the newer animes (that I've heard of anyway) aren't like Nausicaa or Appleseed (old 1980s one and the subsequent two 3d ones) or Ghost in the Shell, so I wouldn't know if I sounded like one or not. This is how I speak normally.
Honestly, all modern compression algorithms nowadays are extremely impressive, and some are very complex.
But, just as an example of how it can compress stuff so much, let's take this waveform/set of samples (the blue dots):
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This is a stereo (2-channel) track. Now obviously the first thing you can do is see that the two tracks are very nearly identical; meaning at most you'd only have to store the differences between the first track and the second, which takes up much less space.
Then you can see that the waveform itself isn't totally random; there's a lot of structure to it. Like for a long while it's in the bottom half, then it moves up into the top half for a while, etc... You can store when the samples are in the top half and in the bottom half, and since there's a fair bit of structure there you can get good compression on that. Then you repeat, is it in the top or bottom quarter? You repeat this until it gets to a point where it gets so complex you can't compress it anymore. After all that is said and done, it's been compressed quite a bit!
You could also just store the difference between each sample (Which as you can see is usually quite small!), which wouldn't require as much storage space as storing the whole sample.
Alright. What music player do you use? Because for the one I use (Foobar2000), there's a plugin called ABX comparator: http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_abx
Basically, it's a double-blind listening test to see if you can audibly tell the difference between two audio files.
In fact, I'll provide you with two audio files here, one FLAC and one WAV. https://mega.nz/#!Ct4WVJgK!YsDK6fOSs7EYyLU67vLIKxt7mz55f ihtUPf3NaXoNOo
I'll have to review the files tomorrow on either my PC or laptop. I'll give you an update asap.
Now that you mention foobar, I think we have come to a conclusion why they sounded different.
I listened to the .wav files on my heavily edited windows media player, and the .FLAC I played in foobarHere's me thinking I'm all knowledgeble, when I should have just converted everything to .FLAC and mess around with the settings on foobar. Thanks for helping me clear that up anyway, much appreciated. The real deal will be when I listen to the two music files, so stay tuned, and have a cookie for being a really good and patient forum member.
