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[Michael]

Your right I should qualify lossless meaning not losing noticeable sound.
The way mp3 is compressed is by eliminating the sounds that aren't used
frequently, mostly the highs of the highs and the lows of the lows and at
the higher bitrate there is no real audio quality loss, but indeed it is
still compressed and data is lost. And on top of that there is always the
risk that the copying will mess up the original data. There are some crappy
mp3 encoders out there.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Joseph C. Bender <jcbender at bendorius.com>
wrote:

> Michael wrote:
> > The comment is uninformed. In all reality if size isn't a factor MP3s
> can be
> > completely lossless.
>  >
>         Not by design, it isn't.  MP3 uses a lossy compression method
> regardless of bitrate.  It's not a reversible process, you're not going
> to get the same file back out of a MP3 codec that you shoved into it.
>
>
>
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