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Rip losslessly to flac with abcde
Authored by: extempore on Oct 24, '05 01:25:07PM

I'm sorry to see the hint was hijacked by a long wrong-headed discusison about whether flac is lossless. The claim that flac is not lossless is pure FUD. There is something wrong with the claimant's tests. Many thousands of people are using the codec. If you're paranoid it has an option to decode the compressed audio at the same time it is encoding it to verify that the original and decoded versions are bitwise identical. If it ever failed it would be huge news.

It's about as likely that flac loses information as that gzip does. Please pay no mind to this outlandish claim.



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