ncarver;693616 Wrote: > I don't understand "history of the content." By that you mean which one > came first, etc.? No. Not the history of the files. The history of the content of the files. Let me illustrate with two hypothetical scenarios. I'll call them A and B.
Scenario A: 1) You have an uncompressed file in RAM. Let's say you copied it from an external disk. 2) You compress it to FLAC in RAM and uncompress it again, all in RAM. You repeat this lossless compressing/uncompressing a million times. All in RAM. 3) You compare the resulting file with the original, to confirm that no errors have occured; that the file is stil bit identical to the original. (If they're not identical, you get a computer that works properly, and start the experiment from scratch). 4) You write the resulting file to the computer's internal hard drive, and reboot the computer. Scenario B: 1) You have an uncompressed file in RAM. Let's say you copied it from an external disk. 2) You stare blankly at the screen. 3) You compare the resulting file with the original, to confirm that no errors have occured; that the file is stil bit identical to the original. (If they're not identical, you get a computer that works properly, and start the experiment from scratch). 4) You write the resulting file to the computer's internal hard drive, and reboot the computer. Points 1, 3 and 4 are identical in both scenarios. Only point 2 differs. The question: When you subsequently play this file from the harddrive, can the difference to what you did to the bits in the file while it was sitting in RAM (step 2 in both scenarios), ultimately make the playback of the file sound different in scenario A than in scenario B? -- Soulkeeper 'Bug 17797: Updating wiki.slimdevices.com' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17797) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Soulkeeper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35297 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
