Re: "Lossless" Audio Codecs & flac

Oddbjørn Kvalsund <[email protected]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:26:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat 12 Jul 15:23, Randy Johnson wrote:
> Just signed up...
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> 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?

Please see http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#general__lossless_trust.

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Regards
Oddbj=F8rn Kvalsund