ATRAC

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ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) is an audio compression algorithm used to store information on Minidiscs and other Sony-branded audio players. First developed by Sony in 1991; the higher mincompression flavors of ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus followed in 2000 and 2003, respectively. It uses quadrature mirror filters and modified discrete cosine transform to represent encoded audio.