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| From | "Matthew George" <abertawe@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: wait a sec - iPod question |
| Date | Mon, 15 May 2006 17:13:22 +0100 |
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On 5/15/06, Josh Chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>
> You can do this, but you pay a quality price. MP3s at 128k have about 10%
> of the data of a CD quality .wav file. MP3 compression is a "lossy"
> format;
> you lose data and fidelity. Burning an MP3 to disc and extracting it as
> an
> MP3 adds another quality loss; an MP3 of an MP3 is like a tape of a tape;
> each generation sounds worse than the one before.
>
>
It's barely noticeable, though. If you buy files from iTunes, you're buying
heavily compressed music anyway, so converting to and from mp3 has little
effect, as far as I can tell. I'm perfectly happy with the few files I've
done this with. If I want lossless music, I'll buy the CD.
Matt.
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