nightspore
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Posted: Sep. 30 2010, 10:42 |
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| Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Sep. 30 2010, 09:04) | What media players do you use? I have Winamp and it plays MP3, Ogg, FLAC and whatever else without trouble. I think he only trouble I have is FLV files, which I play with a different software (VLC player or something, which I also use for MKV's).
Also, did I misunderstand you, or you said that lossless compression is impossible, according to physics? Well, I may be a bit inaccurate, but computer science takes a slight prevalence over physics when it comes to computers, you know.  Lossless compression is absolutely possible and necessary -- everytime you use Zip to squish a 700Mb CD image into a 200+Mb file, that's lossless compression in action, and I don't see why physics would forbid that from happening to audio files. |
Yes, I've used Super to change FLV files into Winamp-playable ones. Of course, it all depends on the versions of these programs that one uses, but I become tired of constant "updates" (Firefox developers, if you're reading this, take note! .
In a computer science sense, where a media file can be considered as one long number, then, yes, it does make sense to use the word "lossless". We're simply talking about two digital registers, and a number can be moved from one to the other. But of course there's the implicit sense of the word, which marketers of course play on, that gives the impression that there's no loss with regard to the original analogue music. That is far more problematic. To discuss it properly it would be necessary to talk about the physical status of the continuous, which would also be to talk about the physical status of the infinite, which many (including myself) have devoted entire doctoral dissertations to.
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