opaqueice;278296 Wrote: > Where in the world did that come from? > is misleading to the point of being just wrong. MP3 files "play" at > exactly the same rate as CDs - for example you could simply decode one > into a 16/44.1 WAV file and then play it, and that's actually what at > least some (if not all) decoders/players do. That semantic quibble > aside, the underlying logic is more seriously wrong, because by > precisely the same reasoning you could say "a FLAC file plays at less > than half the rate of a CD...", and yet FLAC and WAV playback are > identical. > Actually that is not wrong, you are confusing data rate with sample rate and bit depth. Data rate is how much data per second is moved which for uncompressed is exactly 16bits * 2 * 44100.
He was referring to the mp3 data rate, not the audio signal it is converted to. Yes a FLAC file has a data rate of about half of pcm. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44532 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
