[Paranoia] "Lossless" Audio Codecs & flac

[Casey McGinty]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Randy Johnson <
illuminetics at bendbroadband.com> wrote:

>  Just signed up...
>
> When it comes to ripping audio CD's from the standard "Redbook" CDA - 16
> bit bytes @ 44.1 kHz format to a computer's drive, which of the (250+)
> codec's available provide the least amount of loss? I don't care about disc
> space, just the best possible reproduction of the sound from the original
> source.
>
> I use flac frequently, but the "l" in flac is questionable. After all, how
> can you compress data to <60% without any loss at all?
>
> Randy
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If you doubt the compression, you can always uncompress your FLAC files and
compare the FLAC WAVs to the original WAV files from the CDs.
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