[Novalug] music, classical -- and proprietary formats?

[Michael Stone]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:10:58AM -0500, Kenneth A. Kauffman wrote:
>Do some of you guys read all of the message or only pick out the parts you
>want to argue? I did note that this solution is only for those that *need
>to balance storage space with quality*.

Yes, you did say that. Yes I read the whole message, and yes I trimmed 
the quoting to indicate what part I was replying to. I'm not sure what 
your point is--should people avoid continuing a conversation once you've 
said something?

>One question:  Have you ever encoded an original file in LAME "-q 0" and
>moved it to OGG "-q 10" and vice-versa?  And listened to all of them?

Yes I have transcoded files, and yes I have heard wacky artifacts from 
that process.

>I understand the "future proofing" concept of FLAC into other formats.  If
>you own the original media (by law) anyway... future proofing is a bit of
>a moot point.  You could rip straight to whatever format you want at that
>point.

Assuming that the media is still readable, and assuming you want to feed 
everything into your computer again. A lot of people have gotten tired 
of doing that, and a lot of people have seen parts of their cd 
collections disappear. 

Mike Stone