Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder
At 2003-02-03T16:34:13Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Hey, I'm useless until the first cup of coffee sinks in. > Thanks. I thought a wav file and flac file occupied a similar place in > the food-compression chain. So a good option would be to go from wav -> > flac If I wanted to keep a lossless version of the recording around. Correct. You can also go wav -> mp3 at the same time if you want a small file to put on a portable music player, or send to a friend, or what have you. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg17756/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder
Kirk Strauser said: > The main difference is that a flac file can be decompressed into a > bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file, whereas a decompressed > mp3 > bears almost no resemblance to the original. Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Thanks. I thought a wav file and flac file occupied a similar place in the food-compression chain. So a good option would be to go from wav -> flac If I wanted to keep a lossless version of the recording around. > You would probably sample your tapes into a wav file, edit it to your > liking, then use flac for archival. -- Joe Sotham If the only prayer you say in your entire life is "Thank You", that will suffice. - Meister Eckhart To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder
At 2003-02-03T16:16:47Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital > source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I think you may be mixing up the concepts slightly. A flac file is similar to an mp3, in that both are compressed forms of the original audio file. The main difference is that a flac file can be decompressed into a bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file, whereas a decompressed mp3 bears almost no resemblance to the original. You would probably sample your tapes into a wav file, edit it to your liking, then use flac for archival. > I do not require an archival quality process only one that allows me most > flexibility in cleaning up the static and hiss which accompanies the audio > tapes. wav (or similar) is probably your only real option for the intermediate storage. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg17741/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder
> Yes, flac (part of the OGG/et al group now I guess) lives in the > audio/flac > port. :) I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I do not require an archival quality process only one that allows me most flexibility in cleaning up the static and hiss which accompanies the audio tapes. -- Joe Sotham If the only prayer you say in your entire life is "Thank You", that will suffice. - Meister Eckhart To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
