subband coding

Separating the frequency bands in a digital signal. Subband coding is widely used to compress linear PCM music samples into MP3 and other formats by isolating the various frequencies and eliminating the lower-volume bands that are overwhelmed by the louder frequencies nearby. See PCM and perceptual audio coding.

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