What is an audio codec?

July 8th, 2009 by uCertify Leave a reply »

An audio codec is a program that compresses or decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format. The object of a codec algorithm is to represent the high-fidelity audio signal with minimum number of bits while retaining the quality. This effectively minimizes the storage space and the bandwidth needed for transmission of the stored audio file.

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