Hardware music players (was: Moving files)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, at 1:59pm, travis at scootz.net wrote:
> Huh? If you have a live show that's a .wav file and convert it to MP3 you
> lost a lot of data? How is going from a high quality .wav file to mp3 any
> different then CDDA to wav ...

  CDDA -> WAV is lossless.

  <anything> -> MP3 is lossy.

  I think his point was that live records of a noisy concert -- which tend
to be somewhat muddy to begin with -- tend to sound a lot worse when you hit
them with a lossy compressor.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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