[thelist] You can play a song but you can't download it

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rider
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:53 PM
> 
> Minor technical quibble RE: that statement.  When you do this you are 
> taking a sound signal and encoding it when you save it. MP3 
> and wav are 
> "lossy" formats, and do lose a bit of sound quality every time you 
> re-save or re-encode.  

Minor technical quibble RE: that statement as well.  WAV is not a lossy
format, though MP3 is, as you pointed out.

More information about lossy and lossless formats can be found here:

http://www.bobulous.net/misc/audioFormats.html

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
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