Re: lossless format

Mike

If I use a comparision as Jpeg and Tif, Jpeg is a digitial copy of an
originial source, each time you copy a jpeg it degenerates in quality. Tif
on the other hand does Not.
WMA may be an ok file, WAV is the survivor and the format that is most
widely used. It sounds like you have a good knowledge of these files, and I
will admit I am an Old Analog supporter. I do not have 3000 CDs but I do have
4000 songs in wav format on my 250 g HD and have about 100 gig left. I clean
these files, I edit them and I try to keep them as close to the best that
digitial can keep them. I do it only for my Car Audio for when I am home it
is Vinyl. I would much rather use VHS HiFi which has a equivilant of 275 ips
and the S/N is well over 100 DBs, but lineaer Recording is a pain. I do have
over 100 VHS tapes that have much of my Vinyl backed up and I have a lot of
Acoustic such as Bluegrass and digitial destroys the harmonics. The Turntable
is still around and I can still buy Cartridges for it, but the ability of
Mass storeage for backup has chnaged to a format I do not really favor
regardless.
You defend WMA and you are Happy with it, I never accused you have MP3, I
only referred to that as that is what the Masses are leaning towards and they
all must be absolutely TONE DEAF and have no clue what a critical ear is. I
will defend WAV and as Chuck said, he wants quality, I would also say that
WAV is far more supported with NON WINDOWS BASED PLAYERS than WMA, and if you
have to go thru the EXTRA step of conversion to play it on other machines,
and storage is NOT the issue, than why not eliminate the need for that extra
step and record it in WAV?



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"Mike Williams" wrote:

Craig A. wrote:
So because CDs are already of lesser quality than the Original
source, I will try to preserve what is left to the best limit that I can and
that is clearly WAV, I have enough info with CD Text and I am Happy and my
music is as good as it can get. If Chuck had said he had a large collection
of Rap Crap I would have suggested MP3 and he would have never noticed any
difference. It is the SOund Mike, we aren't talking Data here, we are
talking SOUND, stereo Seperation and the such, WAV you can select higher
levels of recording formats, my average song is about 35 meg byte and I
compare to a CD original and there is NO difference, WMA is limited to where
it can be played without having to CONVERT IT yet again.

Craig, I'm sorry but your CD is digitally encoded with a WAV (of
whatever spec). Transforming those bits to another digital format that
doesn't lose the original information is not going to make an iota of
difference. I have about 3000 CDs preserved - without loss of
information - on a hard disk about the size of a fat hardback novel. I
can recreate an audio CD whenever I choose, or make a downscale copy of
a song for use on a small player.


I am a beleiver that
maybe with Data there is no loss in conversion, but when I compare music
youbet there is. I converted some MP3 to WAV and when it was done, there was
a BIG difference as compared to the original source. I expeirmented with WMA
as well and didn't like the idea of limitations. My SOny Car sytem palys my
CDs fine and I get all of the info I need on the display.

Well you keep throwing up the MP3 straw-man, which I have said many time
below is a COMPRESSED FORMAT (compressed by throwing away audio
information), unlike the LOSSLESS FORMATS. Of course there will be a
difference. I have never suggested replacing WAV with MP3 for archival
purposes.


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