METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPRESSION OF STORED AUDIO

摘要

Methods, systems and computer program products for storing of an encoded audio record for local playback are provided. An audio record having symbol level prioritization and including a plurality of first priority symbols and a plurality of second priority symbols to be stored is provided. Ones of the second priority symbols are selected for discarding. The audio record is stored without storing the selected ones of the second priority symbols. The first priority symbols may be high priority symbols and the second priority symbols may be low priority symbols having a lower priority than the high priority symbols. The symbols may be bits and the audio records may be frames.