<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>people on Audiocircle believe copying a file makes it sound worse...<br><br>----<div>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><br>On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jud White <<a href="mailto:jwhite@cdtag.com">jwhite@cdtag.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Solar flares and aliens, mostly. Also I was joking to demonstrate the absurdity.<div><br></div><div>I verified Ben's hypothesis, it is using VERBATIM.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mark Rudholm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@rudholm.com">mark@rudholm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Can you explain exactly how transferring a WAV file from one drive to<br>
another results in degradation of audio quality?<br>
<br>
And what are the "inherent defects of digital copying"?<br>
<br>
Please be as technical as you can, myself and others on this list<br>
understand the relevant concepts very well and would be interested in<br>
understanding this degradation process.<br>
<br>
-Mark<br>
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On 03/09/2012 01:25 PM, Jud White wrote:<br>
> Mark,<br>
><br>
> > if your equipment can handle flac, why bother keeping WAVs at all?<br>
><br>
> Hash codes were invented by people with a vested interest in so-called<br>
> "lossless" compression. The truth is even copying a WAV file from one<br>
> drive to another will result in degradation of audio quality. While<br>
> SnakeOil Software, Ltd can't protect you from the inherent defects of<br>
> digital copying, it's a step in the right direction.<br>
><br>
> My only hope is that this transmission reaches you in a legible form.<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Mark Rudholm <<a href="mailto:rudholm@hyperreal.org">rudholm@hyperreal.org</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rudholm@hyperreal.org">rudholm@hyperreal.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 03/09/2012 08:14 AM, Martin Kos wrote:<br>
> > On 09.03.2012 15:09, yahoo2 wrote:<br>
> >> Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV.<br>
> > really? ;-)<br>
> ><br>
> > the problem is that there is no standarized way to store<br>
> metadata in a<br>
> > WAVE file, like with FLAC tags / vorbis comments in flac files....<br>
><br>
> It seems like you can add ID3 tags to just about any file. Can<br>
> they be<br>
> added to a WAV file, or would most players get confused by that?<br>
><br>
> Maybe someone has explained before, but if your equipment can handle<br>
> flac, why bother keeping WAVs at all? The conversion is so quick and<br>
> today's CPUs are so fast it's nearly zero-cost.<br>
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