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Re: New Cans o' Worms.....

Todd,

Give it a moment's thought. What's being compressed is not music; it's data. It's certainly true that recording is not lossless. And it's true that conversion to digital (if any) is not lossless. But once it's in digital form, lossless is (as someone else has written) lossless. Whether music has regular patterns is beside the point; it's not music that's being compressed, but data.

But as I wrote elsewhere, there certainly could be failures in the algorithm that recovers the data. So in practice it's quite possible that Apple lossless is not truly lossless.

jim


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