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by avisser 950 days ago
> the compression algorithm should be improved

There is an obvious third choice: the gain in compression isn't worth the effort of writing code to detect these non-discernible artifacts.

People are throwing around 0.2 bits/second in this thread. I doubt a company or individual would write code for such a trivial gain, never mind the slowdown in encoding it might cause.

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> isn't worth the effort of writing code to detect these non-discernible artifacts

Why wouldn’t it be worth it? You just have to write the code once and it will affect terabytes of music being compressed from that point forth.

Because it's bad business. How much will people spend to save 0.2bps? My guess is $0. Why spend anything on technology with no return?