Re: WMA vs FLAC

Richard Crowley wrote:
> "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.
> 
> 

    Apparently you failed to understand my original question and it's 
purpose far more than I misunderstand the process and I really don't 
have the motivation to address that or how "But you can't blame that on 
EAC." has nothing to do with anything in this thread. I've gotten the 
answer I needed and the "Wizard" has long finished what it was doing.

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