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Old 2008-05-30, 05:04 PM
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Re: Lossy or lossless?

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Originally Posted by tgunn2760 View Post
I personally do not see a problem in the method I proposed because you are compressing the audio to the same specs. All you doing really is boosting the volume. You do not put any date back to the file when decompressing, and not removing anything that was not removed the first time.
Wrong.

What you are asking is if 256 @ AC3 will become lossless if you amplify it, then re-encode it to 256. That is the same as going mp3 256 > wav/cdr > mp3 256. It's double lossy.

It's the same thing as re-sizing a picture, really.
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