It made/makes much sense If you know what I meant and if you aren't so picky.... ok slap me for my english
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Originally posted by sock
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Saving the uncompressed audio stream is also useless. You wouldn't have anything to play it with.
When I said "uncompressed audio stream", I was referring to PCM data. So this is the same thing as above.
I wasn't referring to PCM data
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Originally posted by sock
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It needs to be recoded (but not nessecairly recompressed) into a new codec.
The whole point of media codecs is to compress/decompress the data. There's no media codec that doesn't (de)compress. If I want it uncompressed, I can put the raw decompressed audio data in a PCM (.wav) file, which is again the same thing as above.
Maybe I used the wrong term here, I didn't meant "codec", but "format"... It needs to be coded, but that doesn't automaticly mean it needs to be compressed. Yes, many music-formats compresses also when it is encoding. But take for example midi (I think anyways; fill in other formats here
), no compression there, only encoding...
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Originally posted by sock
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So, if you keep the bitrates, samplerates, etc... and you save to wav, nothing is lost... as far I can tell...
I can't keep the same bitrate when moving from MP3 to PCM without losing quality, as PCM has no compression.
ok, forget "bitrate", you know what I mean
, don't be so picky
Anyways, my whole point was, you can save MP3 into WAV without losing quality (as you know). And of course this means big filesizes
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