[Flac] uncompressed FLAC

Scott Brown
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:45:53 -0000

people on Audiocircle believe copying a file makes it sound worse...

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On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jud White <jwhite at cdtag.com> wrote:

Solar flares and aliens, mostly. Also I was joking to demonstrate the
absurdity.

I verified Ben's hypothesis, it is using VERBATIM.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mark Rudholm wrote:

> Can you explain exactly how transferring a WAV file from one drive to
> another results in degradation of audio quality?
>
> And what are the "inherent defects of digital copying"?
>
> Please be as technical as you can, myself and others on this list
> understand the relevant concepts very well and would be interested in
> understanding this degradation process.
>
> -Mark
>
> On 03/09/2012 01:25 PM, Jud White wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > >  if your equipment can handle flac, why bother keeping WAVs at
all?
> >
> > Hash codes were invented by people with a vested interest in so-called
> > "lossless" compression. The truth is even copying a WAV file
from one
> > drive to another will result in degradation of audio quality. While
> > SnakeOil Software, Ltd can't protect you from the inherent defects
of
> > digital copying, it's a step in the right direction.
> >
> > My only hope is that this transmission reaches you in a legible form.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Mark Rudholm <rudholm at
hyperreal.org
> > <mailto:rudholm at hyperreal.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 03/09/2012 08:14 AM, Martin Kos wrote:
> >     > On 09.03.2012 15:09, yahoo2 wrote:
> >     >> Uncompressed FLAC is called WAV.
> >     > really? ;-)
> >     >
> >     > the problem is that there is no standarized way to store
> >     metadata in a
> >     > WAVE file, like with FLAC tags / vorbis comments in flac
files....
> >
> >     It seems like you can add ID3 tags to just about any file.  Can
> >     they be
> >     added to a WAV file, or would most players get confused by that?
> >
> >     Maybe someone has explained before, but if your equipment can
handle
> >     flac, why bother keeping WAVs at all?  The conversion is so quick
and
> >     today's CPUs are so fast it's nearly zero-cost.
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