The test file was Dark Side Of The Moon/Speak To Me.aiff size 12058648 bytes either on both CD readers or copied to disk. I encoded to ALAC using iTunes and the sizes from doing "ls -l" are given in previous posts, using the same Mac and settings each time. Given that the encoding back to aif gives the same size for both CD readers is encouraging to me, even though its not the original size. Coming from a computer background I would bet encoding a file should return the same filesize 100% of the time : n bytes encoded equals m bytes. If encoding is adding headers or whatever, that should be the same size as well. Why encoding different filesizes back to the same is more of a mystery to me eg. if one zips a file then unzips it it is the same filesizes.
Thanks for all the info. -- basmac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ basmac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39564 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
