Re: [tlug] OGG & MP3

[Tod McQuillin <devin@example.com>]

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Godwin Stewart wrote:

> > Lossless compression does not have that quality degradation concern.
>
> But does it really exist? Is FLAC, for example, *really* lossless in
> absolute terms or are the losses outside the human audible range (much
> like they are in OGG)? IOW, if you compress an uncompressed stream such
> as PCM WAV and then re-uncompress the compressed stream, do you get
> back exactly the same data as you started with?

Yes, FLAC is really lossless.  When you uncompress a flac file you get 
back exactly the same bits that were originaly compressed.
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Tod