Re: arsclist Digital knowledge preservation

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:24 PM 6/18/2002 +0000, Don Cox wrote:
> On 18-Jun-02, Mike Richter wrote:
>
> > There is lossless compression available for digital audio. Two options
> > are MonkeysAudio (my choice) and Shorten. I verified that there were
> > no losses by compressing a file, uncompressing it, and comparing the
> > result with the original. They are identical at the bit level.
>
> This one is free and open source
> http://flac.sourceforge.net/
>
> but I haven't tested it.

Nor have I, but I shall. The advantage of open source is substantial for 
archiving, of course, so even if FLAC proves less efficient or less 
convenient it may be preferable to MonkeysAudio. Shorten is proprietary and 
I would therefore consider it unacceptable or at least highly undesirable.

Mike

mrichter@xxxxxxx
http://www.mrichter.com/


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