Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:01:02PM -0800, Austin Isler wrote: > > >They're both lossy codecs but work on a different basis, converting > > >between them will further reduce the quality of the audio... > > All this talk of lossy codecs, so please inform us of a good codec. > > I think you misunderstand. There's no particular problem with having a lossy > codec -- it just means that some information is being discarded, but > hopefully not very important information to the sound of the file. > > The problem comes when you take something that was compressed with one lossy > algorithm, and convert it to a totally different one. Odds are good you'll > end up with the worst effects of both. Further info at <http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#lossy>. The original question of converting is dealt with also --- three questions further down. -- imalone
