You have several recordings of your favorite music that you have mixed with beats and other songs. What would be a reason to store your edited music in a compressed audio file format? Choose all that apply.

Compressed audio files use less storage space, so they can save hard disk space (A) and may help you avoid buying another hard drive (B). Smaller files also take less time to upload and share (C). Compression does not necessarily prevent loss of sound quality; some formats reduce file size by discarding audio data, so D is not a reason to choose compression.

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