An audio engineer is remastering a soundtrack originally recorded for an 8-bit retro gaming console to be streamed at a modern high-resolution standard of 24-bit.
Compare the effects of using 8 bits and 24 bits per sample to represent the amplitude of this audio, with reference to sound fidelity and resource requirements.
40 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Data representation, covering Encoding characters with 7-bit ASCII, Representing bitmap images in binary, Representing analogue sound in binary, and Limitations of binary representation. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.