** Also affects: soundconverter
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Option to set output quality to original quality
To manage no
It depends.
If you by quality mean the actual sound quality, then 80% pretty much means
"low" quality (or some other constant setting) in the current interface.
But if you mean bitrate (as soundconverter currently does) I don't think
this would be a useful setting for 3 reasons.
1) Let's say I w
Stefan, I think Carlos want something like "80% of the quality of the original
file", so you can assign a target bitrate for each file, based on the original
one.
That's not so easy to do, it's not a feature I can manage to add at the moment
(how do you handle lossless->lossy?, etc...).
But all
This is not a bug. Re-compressing a lossy file always results in
generation loss, especially recompressing a low quality file with poor
quality would result in horrible quality. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss#Techniques_that_cause_generation_loss_in_digital_systems
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