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Rip losslessly to flac with abcde
Authored by: DylanMuir on Oct 25, '05 01:49:03AM
"Lossless compression" means no information is thrown away.

MP3 and FLAC are analogous to JPEG and GIF, or ZIP. JPEG and MP3 throw away information that is considered unimportant, or below our threshold of detection. FLAC, GIF and ZIP should take some binary stream and compress it in a way that that stream can be recovered PERFECTLY.

Arguing about square waves misses the point -- FLAC can encode any valid PCM stream and reproduce it bit for bit on decompression. The sampling process that makes a true square wave impossible is not the issue here.

D.

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