> 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 .jpg is only lossy from the original .tiff or whatever it came from. An mp3 works the same way. If you take a .wav and encode it to .mp3, you will lose a considerable amount of data in the compression. You will only continue to lose quality if you unencode the mp3 back to a .wav and then encode that second .wav to mp3/ogg. Like making a copy of a photocopy of a photo. > > 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. If you're just listening to basic pc speakers, or cheap headphones you will probably not notice the difference if you have tinitis. > -Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
