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Old 2010-08-07, 07:38 AM
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Re: Help Encode 24 Bit to FLAC

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Originally Posted by optiplex2 View Post
i have a questions. I have a show taped in 96k/16bit. Would the recording become lossy if i converted it to 96k/24bit?

what exactly would it do, and would it be lossy? or would it effect the tempo? just wondering.
I take 'lossy' to mean that the audio has, from its original form, been through a file-size reduction process that throws some data away to leave a reduced file.

In your example, you won't actually be losing anything, or throwing anything away, but you'll have to 'up-sample' to fill from 16-bit to 24-bit, I reckon......

So in short - no, I wouldn't call the up-sampled version 'lossy'
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