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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:34:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Joe Sotham" <joe@dubium.com>
To:        "Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder
Message-ID:  <60614.198.162.158.15.1044290053.squirrel@www.dubium.com>
In-Reply-To: <87r8apmisk.fsf@strauser.com>
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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.




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Joe Sotham
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