RE: Lossless Audio Compression

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

I would go even further and say that, with the increases in PC power,
SERVER-SIDE transcoding from a lossless method to a lossy, IN REAL TIME,
should become increasingly viable an option for streaming to hardware
players.

As you so rightly point out, if you start with lossless, you can move to
lossy.

If you start with lossy, you can't go back.

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:roaming@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 7 November 2002 13:12
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Lossless Audio Compression


Looking forward though, should Ben ever decide to go the network media
player route:
MP3: Supported by Rio, Audiotron, SLiMP3
Vorbis: Supported by Rio
FLAC: Supported by Rio 
WAV: Suppored by Rio, Audiotron
WMA: Suppored by Rio, Audiotron

So, Rio is a winner right?
Excpet Rio is no longer produced, and increasingly hard to get hold of.
SLiMP3 _may_ support formats it currently does not support via
transconding
to MP3  in the future, though this may well degrade the quality.
Audiotron _may_ support formats it currently does not support natively
in
the future, though this depends on it having the horsepower to do so and
on
TB writing a driver for it.

This could mean you end up with all your CD's in a format not supported
by
the media player of your choice, or the media player of your choice
being
impossible to get hold of - it may be wise to consider this when deciding
on
the format to go for.

The good news is that if you go for a lossless format, then, tools
permitting, it should be possible to convert to one of the other
lossy/lossless formats a lot less painlessly than re-ripping your
entire
collection again in the future......


T.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 13:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Lossless Audio Compression
> 
> 
> Ben:
> 
> - MP3 - lossy
> - Vorbis - lossy
> - FLAC - lossless, open-source
> - WAV - lossless, compressionless :-)
> - WMA - lossy or lossless, proprietary, lots of digital 
> rights management
> 
> Personally, I'd look at flac.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben McCormack [mailto:ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 7 November 2002 11:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Lossless Audio Compression
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have finally decided that I want to put all of our CD's 
> (350+) on some
> sort of computer based system to allow  them to be played in a
few
> places at once and also to make playing a single song off of one
CD
> easier.
> 
> Now I am not happy using mp3, I have never been pleased with the
> quality, espically when playing throught the main hifi.
> 
> So I am wondering what the options are for a lossless based 
> compression
> system and does anyone have any experience of them, I am sure that
I
> have heard bits and pieces before on the group.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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