Original Sound Quality

Original Sound Quality ( OSQ ) is a 2002 Steinberg introduced with the audio editing software Wavelab 4 file format for lossless audio data compression.

The format allows for a good starting material compression rates up to 50 %. Thus, it is not comparable to achieve compression method such as MP3 by lossy compression ratios up to 90%. OSQ rather serves the archiving of audio as the daily use.

When you use must be remembered, however, that it is a system developed by Steinberg proprietary format that is not widely supported. An alternative is the free codec FLAC.

Credentials

  • Music Software Glossary OSQ
  • Golem January 18, 2002: Steinberg WaveLab 4.0 brings Wave Editor
  • Emusic November 1, 2002: Wavelab 4.0
  • Data format
Data compression#Audio
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