Re: "Lossless" Audio Codecs & flac
"Casey McGinty" <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:26:26 -1000
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On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Randy Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > Just signed up... > > When it comes to ripping audio CD's from the standard "Redbook" CDA - 16 > bit bytes @ 44.1 kHz format to a computer's drive, which of the (250+) > codec's available provide the least amount of loss? I don't care about disc > space, just the best possible reproduction of the sound from the original > source. > > I use flac frequently, but the "l" in flac is questionable. After all, how > can you compress data to <60% without any loss at all? > > Randy > > _______________________________________________ > Paranoia mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/paranoia > > If you doubt the compression, you can always uncompress your FLAC files and compare the FLAC WAVs to the original WAV files from the CDs. _______________________________________________ Paranoia mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/paranoia