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Lossy and lossless compression compression are two ways of compressing a file.

Lossy compression make the file use less space by deletes any unused space from the file when copying it. Advantages of Lossy compression are that it uses less space on your computer and it also takes shorter to compress. Disadvantages of Lossy compression are that the file looses quality. Examples of Lossy compression are MP3(sound) and jpg(images).

Lossless compression makes an exact copy o f the file and doesn't delete any space. Advantages of Lossless compression are that it keeps its quality. Disadvantages of Lossless compression are that it uses more space and it takes longer to compress. Examples of Lossless compression are FLAC(sound) and ZIP.

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