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An audio codec is a piece of software or hardware that encodes and decodes audio data. The term "codec" is derived from "coder-decoder" or "compressor-decompressor." Audio codecs are used to compress audio files for storage or transmission and then decompress them for playback.

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  1. Data compression
  2. Information theory
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