• OskarAxolotl@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Only reason I could think of is that compressing white noise is very inefficient because of its high entropy. Compression needs patterns and white noise doesn’t really have any.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      That would be true for lossless compression. Audio codecs generally don’t work that way.