EnochLight wrote:
If I burn my iTunes purchased music to a CD, there should be no loss of
quality since it's being decompressed into an encoded wav. Afterwards,
if I re-rip them into wav or a lossless codec such as FLAC or Apple
Lossless, there should be no perceptible loss in audio quality.
Does this sound correct?
Decompressing it does not recover the lost signal.
Its gone forever.
If you later compress them with a lossless system, you
aren't hurting them further. But you still don't have
what the artist and engineer labored to put there.
If you recompress with another lossy system, say Ogg or Wma,
then you are likely to make it significantly worse as each
algorithm has its own biases. Whether this is important depends.
For casual listening, its probably fine. But no audiophile would
consider it equivalent.
Lossy compression throws away stuff.
No such think as a free lunch and all that.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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