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Audio codec
An audio codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format.
In some contexts, such as the AC97 "audio codec" the meaning is that a codec converts to/from analog audio, a combined audio AD/DA-converter, i.e. it is what most people would call a sound card.
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