stackyFACTSYou thought your digital files were just highly efficient? Nah, they just aggressively delete the parts of the track your pathetic human ears cannot register anyway. Through psychoacoustics, the format decides which frequencies mask others, permanently destroying audio information to save space on your hard drive.
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