garym;610306 Wrote: > My concern about FLAC or other lossless purchases is understanding the > "chain" of creation. I know that mp3 files purchased can have all sorts > of differing codecs used (some better than other, VBR, CBR, ABR, as well > as differing quality codecs to begin with, LAME vs others), and were > these things ripped from a disc or created from some "higher" source? > If the FLAC file was created from a disk rip, was it secure? etc. All > this is fairly minor in most cases, and I'd be happy if I knew the > FLACs were created from the studio masters in a high quality > environment. But somehow I'm picturing some minimum wage guy creating > the digital files without any regard for normal safeguards.
As long as you can preview and hear if the quality is acceptable, you've got all you need to purchase. And in fact more than you get with cds or vinyl. -- zowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zowie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=54909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
