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AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
An audio compression scheme defined as part of the MPEG-2 standard (also known as MPEG-2 AAC or MPEG-2 NBC, or Not Backwards Compatible). It offers better sound and a roughly 30 per cent superior compression ratio compared to the MPEG-1 MP3 format.
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