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An '''artifact''' is a noticeable difference between an uncomressed signal and a [[lossy|lossily]]-compressed copy.
 
An '''artifact''' is a noticeable difference between an uncomressed signal and a [[lossy|lossily]]-compressed copy.
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[[Lossy]] encoding can result in very different kind of artifacts/distortions. Sometimes it's not easy to define why the encoding is non-transparent. There are however many typical encoding artifacts.
  
==External links==
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=External links=
 
*[http://ff123.net/training/training.html ff123's Audio Artifact Training Page]
 
*[http://ff123.net/training/training.html ff123's Audio Artifact Training Page]
  
 
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Revision as of 22:08, 25 March 2005

An artifact is a noticeable difference between an uncomressed signal and a lossily-compressed copy. Lossy encoding can result in very different kind of artifacts/distortions. Sometimes it's not easy to define why the encoding is non-transparent. There are however many typical encoding artifacts.

External links