Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I guess what I meant by "pointless" was more that it was not > reversible. > > If the file is normalized right at encode time there's no way to go > back - it is no longer the original data. > > At least with RG the original data isn't touched. Whether you choose > to use or not use the tag data is up to you, but at least the original, > unaltered audio data is present.Right. Still, though, this is very different > from lossy compression in that:
1. you can go back to something much, much closer to the original than with lossy compression; and 2. the point for most applications is not so much the quality of the hypothetical back-transformed file as that of the stream you actually play. For that, all methods are pretty much the same except turning up the analog gain, which is very likely worse. -- 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
