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Old 2025-07-28, 10:55 PM
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Icon6 Re: Streamed show: Audio captured from soundcard - a lossless Q.

Right - captured from lossy and decoded to a lossless format and saved as wav is what it is now. Re-encoding that back to lossy adds a second layer of coding compression errors and further degrades the quality. If you save the wav files as flac, because it is low bitrate from the detail degradation of the original lossy source material, the flacs won't be very large anyway... Little benefit of space saved as "double eMPty3"... hehe
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