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Question 16
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An environmental charity records high-fidelity ambient forest soundscapes in an uncompressed audio format. Before streaming these soundscapes to users via a public mobile application, the audio files are compressed using a lossy audio compression algorithm.

Explain why data loss is acceptable when using lossy compression for these ambient audio streams.

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