On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:12:37PM -0500, Michael Werneke wrote: > > Two questions: > > > > 1. My CD SW rips to .wav's. Can I buy songs in a format (MP3?) that can > > be burned to a CD and does it have to be a .wav? > > Music can certainly be purchased in mp3 or ogg formats. Both can be > burned to cd for use in ordinary cd players. Newer units can play mp3 > and/or ogg directly. > > Problem with purchasing music in lossy format, is that if you go to > unencode it back to a .wav for burning to cd, the sound quality will > still only be as good as the original mp3/ogg. >
Gabe mentioned the same thing. How real a problem is that? As a parallel, just for chuckles once I kept resaving a .jpg as a new .jpg. Ten copies and I couldn't see any difference. It may be lossy, but the effect doesn't appear to be radical. A little loss is probably no big deal for me. I have tinitus (Vietnam, you know ;) and while I love music, I don't have to waste a lot of money on top-of-the-line speakers, if you know what I mean. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
