m1abrams;279302 Wrote: 
> I am sorry but I do not think you understand his quote.  He says that an
> mp3 MUST loose data in order to have such small file sizes.  You can not
> argue that fact, that is the definition of a lossly compression.  Which
> is all you quoted was someone describing a lossly compresson method. 
> Also he never says or implies that mp3 are distorted, but the fact is
> they do not contain all of the original data.

The point is, file size is not a good measure of how much information
was lost.  His factor of 10 is close to meaningless.  

I don't think I'm misunderstanding him - I think he doesn't understand
that.  (If he did and still wrote that, he's being disingenuous.)


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