MPEG-4 ALS: an emerging standard for lossless audio coding

This paper provides a brief overview of an emerging ISO/IEC standard for lossless audio coding, MPEG-4 ALS and explains the choice of algorithms used in its design, and compare it to current state-of-the-art algorithms for lossless audio compression.

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