Mark Lanctot Wrote: > Normalization would alter the audio data, which makes lossless ripping > pointless.If you prefer not to normalize, fine; but such extreme statements as this may confuse people. Normalization means multiplying by a constant. It is true that this is not exactly lossless, unless the constant happens to be a power of two, in the sense that multiplying and then dividing by the same number, with finite precision, produces some rounding error. It is nothing like the loss in compressing and decompressing. It is, however, exactly the same kind of loss you get when you use a digital volume control like the one on the Squeezebox, or when you _listen_ to the file using ReplayGain. It differs from ReplayGain only in what you would hear if you normalized, then unnormalized, then normalized again to a different level.
It may not be "pointless" at all to rip with a method that doesn't apply a lossy codec but does allow the much smaller losses involved in normalization. -- tom permutt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tom permutt's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1893 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23358 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
