Mark Lanctot;192054 Wrote: > It's not lossless though. 256 kbps. > > So close, yet so far. > > I agree, on pop 256 kbps is an improvement. But you always have that > lingering doubt - could it be better? Am I missing anything? Just > that little niggle in the back of your mind that's enough to make me > rip everything in FLAC.
Yeah my mistake. At 256kbps the difference should be undetectable except for the worst problem samples. However without it being lossless transcoding will be ugly. To me you need lossless to get true portability. It's a step in the right direction and the bitrate is fine if you aren't seeking to escape lock in. I bet this is why apple kept it lossless. However I bet someone else will beat them to it, like Napster with WMA lossless. Fairy -- fairyliquidizer "O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion." -Robert Burns- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fairyliquidizer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3678 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34128 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
