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Re: Apple Computer changes its name

In article <1168857034.565075.99990@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 <bieling@terra.es> wrote:
>mdj ha escrito:
>>...the fact that my
>> 0.99c iTunes track can't be transferred without quality loss onto a
>> competitors portable audio device.
>
>Are you sure that transcoding does necesarily equal quality loss ?

Unless you're burning to CD (which iTunes will do with the stuff it downloads)
or converting to a lossless format such as FLAC or Apple Lossless,
transcoding will always incur some amount of quality loss.  If you burn a CD
with some iTunes downloads, it'll play in a CD player with the same quality
that it'd play in an iPod.  If you then rip the CD and encode to MP3, Ogg
Vorbis, or whatever, there will be some degradation.  How much depends on
the codec and bitrate.

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