acquiring digital music

[der.hans]

Am 06. Oct, 2005 schwätzte Dragos Neagu so:

> On 10/6/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > Flouting my laziness - now that I have an ipod and actually have started
> > to learn what WAV - AAC - MP3 formats are - does anyone want to tell me
> > what FLAC is?
> >
> > Craig
>
> http://www.vorbis.com/ (flac in the top right)
> flac, in short is a lossless compression (iirc, ~70% the size of a WAV file)

70%? Hmm, I was told ( the FAQ doesn't say, though ) that WAV files have
two data points for each piece of data and the average is used. This
supposedly makes it somewhat scratch resistant because both pieces of
data have to be wiped out to lose that chunk. FLAC then is supposedly the
average of those two points ( and therefore 50% the size of WAV ) as you
shouldn't be losing part of a digital file :).

Heck if I know...

ciao,

der.hans
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