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		spacechild1 on May 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Byte Order Fiasco MIDI (8 bit), 16 bit PCM, 24 PCM and basically any compressed data format (which is always byte based, because the idea is to save memory). You obviously don't care about memory, but many people do!

BlueTemplar on May 9, 2021 [–]

But compressed data formats aren't going to care about byte size for this very reason...

spacechild1 on May 9, 2021 | [–]

Ok, bad example.

But still, 'byte' refers to the smallest addressable unit of memory. There's just no point in arguing over its size...

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