From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 8:32: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472DE37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:32:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A4143F79 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 68720 invoked from network); 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO dubium.com) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0000 Received: from 198.162.158.15 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joe@dubium.com) by www.dubium.com with HTTP; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:34:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <60614.198.162.158.15.1044290053.squirrel@www.dubium.com> In-Reply-To: <87r8apmisk.fsf@strauser.com> References: <20030202165056.GA5179@teddy.fas.com><20030203030949.GK89972@arpa.com> <53004.198.162.158.15.1044289007.squirrel@www.dubium.com> <87r8apmisk.fsf@strauser.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:34:13 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder From: "Joe Sotham" To: "Kirk Strauser" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 RC2a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message