Comparison of audio quality in streaming services
With rapidly increasing demand for streaming services in the past ten years, major companies like Netflix, YouTube, or Spotify had to overcome many difficulties on their road to success. One of the major problems, most platforms had to solve, was storage capacity and availability. While we as consumers are enjoying our content without ever thinking about what is happening behind the curtains, YouTube , for example , has changed its video loading from full to partial, to decrease the load of thousands of users on its servers. Netflix, like many others, adopted this approach, but the most valuable helper for all of them is compression. Without com pression , streaming would not be possible as we know it today. It decreases the size of raw files and reduces the bandwidth required to transmi...