However, the full name and the initialism BAL almost immediately attached themselves in popular use to all assembly-language dialects on the System/360 and its descendants. BAL for BPS/360 was introduced with the System/360 in 1964.
Lossy format means that data was lost during conversion from original source, for example WAV to MP3 results in loss of audio data that most people can't hear, because they're â¦ probably have a terrible monitor chain.
Audio file format. An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.