> I'm not going to swear to it, but as long as the conversion > is only taking a few seconds, then there's probably nothing > to worry about. Hopefully some others will chime in, but > conversion to MP3 would take a lot longer (probably several > minutes on a current PC? Try it to find out). If you're not > transcoding, then you're (hopefully!) not performing a lossy > operation on the audio stream.
Indeed. Preaching to the choir there, I work with audio on a daily basis juggling probably half a dozen formats, lossy and lossless. I spend seemingly half of my waking hours explaining to people why transcoding their iTunes to MP3 is not a good idea. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
