> Um... is there such a thing as "lossless" compression? I don't think
> so... I think "lossy compression" is redundant ;)
Lossless compression is what people generally call programs like WinZip.
When you compress a file with WinZip, it takes up less space and when you
decompress it you get the exact same data that you compressed. In other
words, it doesn't lose any data in the compression and decompression
process.
ATRAC is lossy because it does NOT return the same data after
decompression that it was given for compression. ATRAC throws out
information in order to make it easier to compress the data, therefore the
compression and decompression process loses data.
This is, coincidentally, why audio MD equipment would be very poor for
data storage. I believe this has been discussed on-list a few times.
-- Dave Kimmel
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