blackbear;138676 Wrote: > Sorry, but that is just plain wrong. You seem ignorant of the difference > lossy and lossless compressed formats. With lossless formats, such as > FLAC, all information is retained, and when uncompressed, an exact > duplicate of the original bytestream is achieved. Thus, there is no > sonic difference between a .wav and a .flac of the same song. They are > both "the gold standard". > > Yes, disk space has become very cheap, but so has proccessing power, > and the cost of compressing and decompressing is no excuse not to use > (lossless) compression. > > And, as Nostromo correctly ponted out, .aiff and .wav have inferior or > nonexistent tagging capabilities, unlike FLAC and many others. Perhaps > iTunes hides that from you (I wouldn't know as I don't use iTunes)
Please don't start throwing accusations of ignorance around. It's ill-mannered, boring, unnecessary and also happens to be wrong. This was a simple mis-phrasing on my part. I meant that there is continuing argument about the merits or otherwise of lossless compressed formats. Listen to any bunch of audiophiles, and they'll probably be at it at some time. There is no such argument about the sonic qualities of the uncompressed formats. Why does one need an "excuse" to use an uncompressed format? I happen to prefer uncompressed files because I find them more versatile and useful and I'm also not convinced that adding to the complexity of any process is necessarily a good thing. (Nobody mentioned the cost of processing as an argument, I believe.) That is a perfectly reasonable - and reasonably well-informed and rational - position to hold. It certainly doesn't strike me as terribly provocative. What you say about tagging merely repeats, with more aggression but without imparting any additional information, a point about which I'd already agreed I knew nothing because I use iTunes, and therefore am not aware that I need to know anything - which may, or may not, be an advantage of using iTunes, depending on your point of view. But I'm really not interested in an argument. I was rather hoping for an entertaining and possibly illuminating discussion. -- geraint smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------ geraint smith's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=625 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27729 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
