Don Capps asked,
| This is the kind of thing I just don't understand. ... If you take
| an MP3, RA, WM, LA, or any OTHER type of compressed audio file you care to
| name, and record that file to minidisc, it has just been compressed again.
| Data has been lost not once but twice. This simply HAS to have deleterious
| effects on fidelity.
Someone else brought that up just a couple weeks ago.
You aren't recompressing compressed data; you are compressing the decom-
pressed output of a previous compression. The various codecs have overlap
in what they consider expendable; they are not orthogonal to one another.
If you record the output of a 12:1 MP3 file to MD at 5:1, the result will be
worse than 12:1, but it won't be as bad as 60:1. Try it for yourself.
By the same token, re-ATRACking an MD track results in something a little
worse than 5:1, but not in 25:1.
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