It's easy enough to test the lossless "theory" using a hash algorithm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function Just as a text file doesn't change after being zipped and unzipped, neither will music bits change with lossless compression and decompression. Losssless compression is essentially "shorthand". Instead of reading "zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero", the sequence is notated as "6 zeroes". This saves a little space, and when read back, produces the exact same number pattern. On a more practical note, WAV files have no provision for metadata (tags). FLAC files do. Managing a collection without the benefit of tags is extremely cumbersome. I'd use FLAC for that reason alone, even if there was a detectable difference in sound quality. Thankfully, with FLAC I don't lose anything. -- Pale Blue Ego ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pale Blue Ego's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=110 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21700 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
