Imagine you have an FLAC (lossless) file of a rare shanty, or a low-quality OGG. You want to create a standard for your car or phone.
The "Sailor Song" is characterized by call-and-response vocals, themes of wind, waves, whiskey, and longing for home. When encoded as an M4A file, the nuances of these acoustic recordings—the rasp of the ropes, the crash of the sea, the harmony of the crew—are preserved with shocking clarity. 01 Sailor Song m4a