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The idea that you can fit music in "16kb" is not really shocking, music notation has achieved the same or better for centuries.
by oceanplexian 4y ago
The idea that you can fit music in "16kb" is not really shocking, music notation has achieved the same or better for centuries.
- HPsquared 4y agoIt's also highly compressible, with all the repeating patterns and similar permutations.
- vintermann 4y agoMusic notation is a very lossy format though, and getting a way to play it back at all is ludicrously expensive.
- skrebbel 4y agoMusic notation does not include any information about what the notes should sound like. The actual sound synthesis, not the notes, is the majority of the code size here.