Last night Brian & Roger attended a Gala performance of We Will Rock You at Manchester's Palace Theatre. They later took to the stage & performed "Bo Rhap"
I have a question - A Word In Your Ear says that he the audio has been ripped from youtube. Wouldn't that make it lossy, even thpugh it is in flac format?
ParisNair wrote:
Thanks for the share : )
I have a question - A Word In Your Ear says that he the audio has been ripped from youtube. Wouldn't that make it lossy, even thpugh it is in flac format?
Quite correct, But!!!! if I had posted in Mp3, as I was first going to, this thread would then become a "Same old- Same old" debate as to why I should have posted in Lossless, even though it was from a lossy source.
I suppose now, it could become a debate of "Whats the point of posting in Flac, if it is from a lossy source" LOL.
ParisNair wrote:
Thanks for the share : )
I have a question - A Word In Your Ear says that he the audio has been ripped from youtube. Wouldn't that make it lossy, even thpugh it is in flac format?
Quite correct, But!!!! if I had posted in Mp3, as I was first going to, this thread would then become a "Same old- Same old" debate as to why I should have posted in Lossless, even though it was from a lossy source.
I suppose now, it could become a debate of "Whats the point of posting in Flac, if it is from a lossy source" LOL.
Actually there's a very good reason why you should post in FLAC. The trouble with lossy encoding schemes is that they are not always self-identity functions. Meaning that if you process an audio source twice with the same codec, you aren't guaranteed that the second processing won't knock out more data.
Now that being said, we can't assume we know what lossy codec YouTube uses so at worst by converting to MP3 you'd be transcoding the audio through a second lossy codec which would then remove even more data from the audio stream. So posting in a lossless format is the only way to guarantee that the audio isn't further downgraded from what's on YouTube.