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Bonk is a high quality audio compression program. It can operate in
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either lossless or lossy mode. In lossless mode, the exact original
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WAV file can be recovered from the compressed file. In lossy mode,
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some information is discarded in the compressed file, yielding a much
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higher compression ratio. The information discarded is perceptually
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unimportant, and the result should be a *perceptually* lossless encoding.
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Bonk can compress some types of sounds more than others, so the actual
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bit-rate achieved varies.
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Bonk differs from most existing lossy coders in that it does not
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use a Fourier transform to analyse the audio. Instead it uses a
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linear predictor (as used in speech compression) with a very high tap
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count.
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