Posted on Monday, October 09, 2006 11:43 AM
A beginners guide to lossless audio. Your ears will love it.
Lossless audio (.flac, .shn, etc) allows the exact original audio to be reconstructed from the compressed audio. This can be contrasted to lossy audio (.mp3, .aac), which does not allow the exact original audio to be reconstructed from the compressed. What does this really mean? If you encode a CD/audio file to mp3, you lose quality. If you encode a CD/audio file to .flac or .shn, you do not.
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(Thru: livemusicblog.com)