You are like the the Fonz...'i was wrr...wrrr...wrrrrr'. Except not as cool.
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >Tom's point was that there would be MORE loss then the original encoding > of > >the song by Apple or whomever. If you take a 320kbit data stream and put > it > >on a cdr uncompressed you've lost nothing. Then rip it with a lossless > >encoder (flac) then again, you've lost nothing. However you do take a hit > >with the file size. > > You are largely right. I had assumed that the music file was going to be > converted back into an MP3. That last conversion would have been where > most of the quality loss occurred. > > However... > > 1) There are some mechanical errors and computational rounding in the > process of converting the MP3 to a digital stream and writing the digital > file onto the CD. > > 2) There are mechanical and computational errors in the ripping process. > To avoid these you would want to buy a precision ripping program. I have > seen these, but at the moment can't remember a name. > > It is also a lot of work to save 30 cents. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
