Re: WMA vs FLAC

"geoff"  wrote ...
> Steven Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> Not if you configure EAC to pass the .wav file onto a file
>> compressor.  Indeed, EAC comes 'loaded' with an mp3 codec for that
>> (some version of LAME, IIRC), and a handy graphic button labelled
>> 'MP3' to rip a CD 'directly' to compressed format, but you can point
>> it to FLAC.exe or any other codec you've got.
>
> ... which is where it ceases to fit the description 'Exact Audio
Copy'....

Then you don't understand the process.  EAC does indeed make
as exact a copy as possible (given the minimalist error detection
and correction on Red-Book audio CDs)

What you choose to do with that exact copy is up to you (as it
should be).  If you choose to use lossy compression (such as
MP3, etc.) then you made your own decision to make the
"copy" not-exact.  But you can't blame that on EAC.