[Paranoia] "Lossless" Audio Codecs & flac

[Eric Sandeen]

Randy Johnson 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?

Magic as far as I know.  But it works.  :)

Try:

       -V, --verify
              Verify a correct encoding by decoding the  output  in
parallel
              and comparing to the original

or if you don't believe that then do as the other reply said, and take a
wav, flac it, de-flac it, and compare.

-Eric