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The word "lossless" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a file format or method of compression which does not reduce the quality of the original data. For example, "This file was compressed using a lossless method so that none of the original quality was lost."
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lossless
adjective
Free from loss, especially not losing electrical energy or force
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A future generation trained to hear a recording's subtleties burned by a lossless codec onto an audio Blu-ray Disc will be puzzled by their parents' preoccupation with sizzling songs rather than an authentic replica of the music the performer actually created.
With its lossless codecs, Blu-ray can play high-resolution music way beyond a CD's dynamic range.
All agree, though, that lossy algorithms of the past need to be replaced by lossless ones.
But unlike lossy codecs, lossless ones reconstruct the original audio stream as an exact duplicate without any loss of data.
The rocker John Mellencamp issued a CD in 2008, which came with a lossless high-definition version on a DVD to demonstrate what the music should really sound like.
Lossless compression replaces redundant patterns of data in a file with codes that take up less space.
He realised that image compression could be the culprit.There are two types of image compression: lossless and lossy.
A common format for compressing static images, especially for display over the Internet, is GIF (graphics interchange format), which is also lossless except that its images are limited to 256 colours.
Because GIF is a lossless data compression format, meaning that no information is lost in the compression, it quickly became a popular format for transmitting and storing graphic files.
It's best to use Tiff as it is a lossless format, while Jpeg experiences a loss in quality when items are edited.
I take the Tidal test by pressing a button: it prompts me to compare lossless versions of five tracks with their compressed, mp3-style equivalent.
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