Suppose on the face value their claims are true about the compression ratio vs fidelity loss - "CD quality audio at 1/10th the current standard data size". That's an order of magnitude improvement. So ...

TL;DR: Encodec is a next-generation audio codec based on a complex neural network design, a system that can squeeze a lot of audio juice into minimal storage space. The codec would work for Metaverse ...

Their claim that is transcoded "without a loss of quality" is vastly overstated. At best, it sounds comparable to a 24kbps MP3 file at 48khz, meaning that they have achieved about 1/4 the file size of ...