Posted by NRen2k5 on 11/16/32 11:37

Bob wrote:
> Why would there be a loss of quality? Obviously the source is digital.
> Surely the conversion only rearranges the data to another format. Maybe
> if you changed the sampling rate then the conversion would have to lose
> or "invent" some samples.
>
> Or am I miising something?

Different lossy formats cut slightly different things out using
different ways. And then on top of that, you could say that the result
is arranged differently from format to format. So it's just impossible,
say, to take an M4A and make it be interpreted as a WMA.

- NRen2k5

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