[tlug] Lossless Audio Compression (was CD Ripping and Compression Quality)

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Godwin wrote:

> On Sat, 20 May 2006 09:37:10 -0400, Jim <jep200404@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Lossless compression does not have that quality degradation concern. 
> 
> But does it really exist? 

I don't know much about this. You know more than I. 

The second goal listed on http://flac.sourceforge.net/goals.html 
indicates that this is an issue. What are your experiences with 
lossless (or wannabe lossless) audio compression? 

I don't know if this issue is limited to FLAC, or affects other 
lossless codecs such as the Shorten and True Audio codecs. 

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTA_%28codec%29
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten
   http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison
   http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm

Of course, classic lossless codecs such as gzip, compress, zip, bzip2 
are reliably lossless, but since they are not tailored for audio, 
have low compression rates for audio.