Correct. Also it is possible that you may *reduce* the quality of the track. When it is decoded there will be audio artefacts in the stream, these are actually really difficult to re-compress. So there is every change you are going to increase any artefacts already there.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rls Sent: 13 March 2005 00:45 To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: [H] mp3 question - stupid Lets say a song was encoded at 96 kbps - re-encoding it to 160 kbps won't improve it as the detail has already been lost during the original encoding correct??
