drewe181;149008 Wrote: > hi guys, can anyone tell me if, from a sound quality point of view, it's > worth converting my mp3s to FLAC or whether i have the 'joy' of > re-ripping my collection to get better sound. > > since mp3 has been compressed, i don't know if it is uncompressed when > converted -to FLAC- or not
When you encode to MP3, certain components of the music are -irretrievably- lost. Converting it to FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC or WMA Lossless won't bring back what was discarded. The point of a lossy encoding process is to discard musical data without it being noticed, which gets harder and harder as the bitrate drops. But at higher bitrates and with modern encoders (Ogg or the latest LAME, for example), your hearing and your audio equipment may not be able able to properly tell what was removed, so Adam's point about A/B testing is good. That said, I always encode to FLAC. ;-) -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28710 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
