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Joint stereo
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Joint encoding.
Joint stereo
The term joint stereo became prominent as the early Internet allowed for the transfer of relatively low bit rate, acceptable-quality audio with modest Internet access speeds. Joint stereo refers to any number of encoding techniques used for this purpose. Two forms are described here, both of which are implemented in various ways with different codecs, such as MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis.