On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 12:26:15PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > since wav and mp3 or both lossy (44khz wav can't properly > reconstruct signals with more then 22khz).
That's something of a confusing statement... All recording formats are "lossy" in that the recording is never a perfect copy of the original real-world event. A "perfect" recording of a real-world event cannot exist. But this isn't what the word usually means in this context. There is a set of recording formats, such that conversion of a file into/out of the format gives a result identical with the original; the chances of it being different are about the same as those of the very large number of monkeys writing Hamlet. These are "lossless" formats, such as wav and flac. There is another set of recording formats, such that conversion of a file into/out of the format gives a result which differs from the original. These are "lossy" formats, and include mp3, ogg and all analogue formats. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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