05-27-2013, 05:02 AM
The guy who wrote that doesn't know a diddly squattish about what he's talking about. He is correct that mp3 is lossy, but he's incorrect about what the loss necessarily entails. Purely default settings actually will encode the mp3 to where it concentrates on the most data-filled areas and discards the non-data and up to a certain threshold for "not enough data to worry about". MP3 encoding has no concept of what the human ear can or can not hear, that's a consequence of MOST audio files having MOST data concentration between 20hz and 20khz.
And aside from that, the settings can be changed... and a 320kbps mp3 with otherwise standard settings for example is practically lossless the acceptable loss threshold is so high.
I have full confidence that Shannon knows how mp3 encoding works and has configured his encoder such that we're getting zero actual loss.
And aside from that, the settings can be changed... and a 320kbps mp3 with otherwise standard settings for example is practically lossless the acceptable loss threshold is so high.
I have full confidence that Shannon knows how mp3 encoding works and has configured his encoder such that we're getting zero actual loss.
