Rachael and Dan are correct. It used to make a noticeable difference in the time it took to generate Real Tracks if you uncompressed them. Some people reported decreasing the time by maybe a third or so. As of version 2010, this no longer is as important, since the song starts playing even while the Real Tracks for later in the song are being generated.


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