(lossy) Remaster which was stupid from a company selling to us guys - who
crave and buy quality - put it this way - I've never bothered to buy or
even download it - although I love the album, but it is stupidly lossy.
The issue is not to remove your files but make sure that in the tagging you
label them as from a lossy source - if you're not sure about all the things
you can do in tagging use Winamp - I've tagged all my oddities with this
even if you don't use it to play tracks.
And thanks for sharing so all know what we mean. :-)))
-----Original Message-----
From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of scolumbo
Sent: 12 May 2011 22:42
To: SurroundSound
Subject: [SurroundSound] Re: Chicago Transit Authority - Quad DVD release
...
I believe my flac files of the CTA DTS are identical to the original.
Do you have reason to think the they are not? Is the process of compressing
and decompressing the files using the FLAC codec causing the anxiety?
I'll continue to use FLAC as my means of archiving my audio collection
whether they are CD's, DVD-A rips, or DVD-V rips since I know they are
identical. If the consensus of the hub is that they are not to be shared, so
be it, I'll remove them. Those that may have received flacs of the CTA
should just delete them.
On May 12, 5:25 pm, "Lokkerman" <phil.steep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But the point is FLAC should be unadulterated at source and not messed
> up with lossy shit encoding in the first place hence why folks
> complain when someone uses FLAC from a lossy source and why many
> programs exist to verify the source; if you need tagging (from a lossy
source) use Ogg.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
>
> On Behalf Of scolumbo
> Sent: 12 May 2011 22:17
> To: SurroundSound
> Subject: [SurroundSound] Re: Chicago Transit Authority - Quad DVD
> release ...
>
> Nope, not missing the point. FLAC as a means of archival is becoming
> the de facto standard and doesn't have to be used only for lossless wav
files.
>
> Having my audio files in FLAC format that allows tagging, imbedded
> artwork, can be streamed using my Oppo (hardware decoded) or my HTPC
> using foobar, and is roughly 40% smaller in size than the original
> file depending on the amount of compression used without loss of quality,
makes perfect sense.
>
> On May 12, 4:43 pm, Chris Lueders <c16ch...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On May 12, 7:35 pm, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > My understanding of the FLAC format is there is no transcoding
> > >being done at all. FLAC is a codec that uses a lossless algorithm
> > >to compress a file and with the appropriate decoder is then
> > >decompressed to an original identical copy of the audio data. If
> > >the file is a DTS
> > > (lossy) file, compressing and decompressing the file should have
> > >no affect on the quality of the original file. FLAC is a container
> > >format that merely makes the file size smaller (losslessly), no
> > >different than zipping a file would.
> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flac
>
> > You're missing the point here. Of course the data is not changed,
> > but you're passing off a lossy rip as lossless because FLAC is
> > primarily a lossless codec (not a container in the sense that WAV
> > is) and is thus traditionally used to losslessly archive CD format
> > or better, not lossy sources. What you're suggesting is the same as
> > if you would transcode an MP3 to WAV. Sure, WAV is just a container
> > and may contain any kind of sound data. But does it make sense? No.
> > Btw, dts is already inside a wav container most of the time, so just
> > rename it to xy.dts.wav if you must.
>
> > Besides, the space gain is little and you lose the ability to
> > hardware decode the DTS stream AFAIK when you stream from FLAC to a
receiver.
>
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