Re: Fake 24-bit FLAC?
Reply #14 –
Flac is a format in a minimalist container. Flac, the tool, is also a codec. Will Monkey's Audio be able to decode the compressed audio data inside the flac file? I didn't think so.
Yes, the compressed audio data inside could be sourced from anything. It is obviously not a guarantee of losslessness. Sampling an analog waveform into digitized data is also not lossless for that matter. The stuff that's encoded with a program like flac or flake and placed in a flac (or ogg) container is the very same stuff when it is pulled out of the container and decoded. This process is lossless and there is no loss in quality; not this, "enormous, nearly 2x loss in sound quality" nonsense.
I'm also reading elsewhere more bullshit like this:And, WAV is container too. With lossless compress-algorithm.
What's the point in calling sandwiched data in a container, in its raw uncompressed form, compression?
Let's not bog topics like this down through trivial and incorrect nitpicking and defending it in a Dunning-Krueger fashion.
If you can't tell I'm a bit annoyed.