Re: Bit depth and sampling rate

"'Mark P. Fishman' [email protected] [EAC]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.eac.user
Organization MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/27/2018 11:51 AM, John Lesh leshjoh-/[email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> Is the bit depth and sampling rate from cds ripped to flac on EAC 
> predetermined by the common cd standards or something in the EAC ripping 
> process?

That's kind of like asking whether the words and letters in a photocopy 
of a book page are predetermined by the book page you have copied, or by 
the photocopier.

If you're ripping a CD, you want the very same bits that were put in 
that CD. Exact Audio Copy tries to give you an *exact* *copy*, so the 
bits you get are determined by the CD you are ripping. If EAC did 
something else, it wouldn't be an exact copy.

FLAC is an encoder. It happens to be a lossless encoder, like the zip 
encoder is for a computer file, so when you decode you can get back the 
exact bits that went in.

The bits at the end of the process should allow you to reconstruct the 
original CD exactly. In other words, none of your tools should change 
the bit depth or sampling rate from what is on the CD that you rip.



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certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding 
are filled with doubt and indecision.
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