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An artifact is a noticeable difference between an uncompressed 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

ff123's Audio Artifact Training Page

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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 uncompressed signal and a [[lossy\|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.		[[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.