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Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper
Maker compresses a 2.9MB song by 1000x and prints it on paper as eight QR codes — 21KB song is two minutes long, requires a neural network for playback

The open-source codec Meta released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio.
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