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A lot of misconceptions exist about audio compression. Bear in mind that the whole idea behind it is to store digital audio but not have it take up too much space on your hard drive. Uncompressed audio is in wav format. You can compress it in 2 ways:

Lossless compression: no information is lost, compression is [...]

There are a few ways I can think of for an audio player to show you all relevant information (artist, title, release year, …) about an audio file.

derive it on-the-fly from the filename.

disadvantages:

only a limited amount of fields can be entered before file names become too long
changing a field would require you to rename the [...]