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RE: Help for a Dinosaur...

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In Reply to: RE: Help for a Dinosaur... posted by DLB on May 09, 2008 at 23:02:11

Use Wikipedia for the definitions...easiest way to go about that.

As for strengths and weaknesses, it comes down to how picky you are about sound and how much hard drive space you have to play with, or are willing to get. FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and Apple Lossless (obviously :P) are lossless encoding schemes, as compared to MP3, which is lossy. When you encode music to MP3, it's removing information in order to shrink the file size way down - low-bitrate MP3 files don't sound anywhere near "hi-fi", but since they're small they've become popular with people who can't hear the difference or just put them on their Ipods with crappy earbuds.

In your situation, I would probably use FLAC or Apple Lossless. Since you say you're a vinyl guy, no reason to go with MP3, you're used to better :)

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