Re: Apple Computer changes its name

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <1168868350.414093.269480@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
 <bieling@terra.es> wrote:
>
>Let's say that we've got a music file with a bitrate x. We burn this
>file into a CD (AIFF), then we encode it from the CD's AIFF into
>another mp3 file with the same bitrate x as the original. The question
>is, have we really lost any quality in the process? I ask because I'm
>not so sure... ?

If you use exactly the same codec with exactly the same settings, I'd
hope there would be no quality loss.  I don't know if this is the
right term, but I call this a "stable" codec -- one where C(D(x)) = x
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