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gbroman
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14. January 2009 @ 22:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Just a question on encoding.
A folder containing 73.9MB MP3 audio files encoded to 546MB Flac format will not have regained any of the sound spectrum that was lost before it was compressed to MP3, that's correct is it not?
I have just converted the MP3 to Flac out if interest and I may as well delete it off of my computer because all I have done is create a 546MB folder om 73.9MB MP3. 476.1MB of wasted space, correct?

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15. January 2009 @ 06:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Your understanding is the same as mine.
gbroman
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15. January 2009 @ 15:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cheers attar.
Crazy how the MB's increase for no gain of sound quality.
A correction to my original post: "A folder containing 73.9MB MP3 audio files encoded to 546MB Flac format will not have regained any of the sound spectrum that was lost before it was compressed to MP3, that's correct is it not?" -- should have been..............the sound spectrum that was lost when the original audio files were compressed to MP3.
I've recovered the 476.1MB HDD space.

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15. January 2009 @ 15:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes when an mp3 file is created some of the original audio data is permenantly removed to make the file size smaller.
It is impossible to reconstruct this removed data because there is no record in the mp3 file of what exactly was removed.
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