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Trapped Sound: How Computers Turn Music Into Numbers

2 listens · 2 weeks ago · Science

Polly and Trevor reveal how your phone squeezes whole songs into tiny files by measuring sound thousands of times a second and writing it all down as 1s and 0s.

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