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Re: [ARSCLIST] Lossy compression losing quality (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio and the Milllennials . . .)
Howard Friedman wrote:
In my case, the cure may be worse than the disease, since the technology is just about over my head! And what other aphorisms of yours can you share with us? And in another vein, almost every time one copies a file, one loses something.
1. Try downloading Monkeys Audio and play with it. If it causes
problems, forget about it. One reason I like it is that I can preserve
any CD-DA with the extra ECC layer, add text and graphics, and still fit
the result onto a standard CD-R. If I want to be super-certain, I can
put it onto a shorter CD-R, say a 74-minute though the CD-DA fills an
80-minute disc.
2. Other aphorisms are saved the appropriate moment. <G>
3. Copying a digital file either loses nothing or fails; the exceptions
to that are exceedingly rare. That is, if the copy is not perfect then
the transfer will fail, usually due to the dreaded CRC error. There is a
tiny chance of dual failure which would permit copying a file with an
error, but that is negligible in practice.
Mike
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