WMA LOSSLESS

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raydlevel5 - 31 Aug 2005 16:23 GMT

I've got 2 questions:

If I enocde a CD using the WMA lossless codec, and burn the WMA files to a
CD-R using a burning utility (Nero, Roxio, Windows Media Player), will the
burned tracks be CD perfect sound - or - identical to the orignal CD? I'm
assuming since WMA Lossless is guaranteed bit-for-bit when decoded, that it
will be CD perfect for whoever decodes it.

What about when you burn a 128kbps WMA to CD? How close to CD-quality is
that burned track? And, what if you download a song from Napster, burn it to
CD, and then burn it back to the computer, and then again back to CD? How
much data is lost in that process?

Thank you for your time,

Ray

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Ted Zieglar - 31 Aug 2005 16:41 GMT

Good questions:

WMA Lossless is "mathematically lossless", not a bit-for-bit copy. The
quality will be, for all intents and purposes, indistiguishable from the
version on the original CD.

128KB is a high quality encoding that is close to CD quality. How close will
depend on the quality of your sound system, the ambient noise and how
discerning a listener you are.

You can move 0's and 1's back and forth between a CD and your computer as
many times as you like without damaging them.

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