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In MPEG Layer III coding the compression gain is mainly achieved through the unequal distribution of energy in the different frequency bands, the use of the psychoacoustic model, and Huffman coding.

Because Huffman coding relies on the most common value being assigned the shortest code, the team used a bit of Python and C magic to figure out the optimal encoding for their audio file.

In this paper, the authors investigate the superiority of the arithmetic data compression technique over the Huffman data compression technique in reducing the channel bandwidth and the ...