Re: WMA vs FLAC

"WindsorFox<SS>"  wrote ...
> 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.

And you apparently are ignoring the fact that your
misstatement went on your permanent record (i.e.
Google Groups Archive). Misstatement of facts
should not go unchallengd in the record.


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