fred7 wrote: > It does seem that a lot of people don't believe that FLAC is truly > lossless. A simple test is to just rip a track to WAV and the same > track to FLAC. Then just convert the FLAC file to WAV and compare the > converted file to the file that was ripped directly.
Then there are a lot of people who do not understand what lossless means. Granted, way back when, I did exactly the test you suggested. I took files, ran them through FLAC, and then back out, and diff'd the files. They usually had a block or two of all zeros (yes, I looked inside the files at the binary) as some sort of padding. All of the blocks of bits that had any non-zero bits were identical over many megabytes of data. I tried about a dozen files for different albums/artists/etc. I got tired of looking, they were all identical -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
