andynormancx;383181 Wrote: > "lossless" is an abbreviation for "lossless compression", hence WAV > files are no lossless as such.That might be your definition, but to an > engineer, "lossless" is merely the opposite of "lossy", and WAV files are therefore by definition lossless, because they are non-lossy. Re-interpreting the meaning of the term is allowed, of course, but doing so inhibits understanding. In basic information transmission theory, "lossy" and "lossless" need have no fundamental dependence on or relationship to "compression"; it's not a -sine qua non-.
(I once heard a jazz snob say that Swing wasn't actually jazz -- and he was right, according to his own personal definition of what jazz is. But it put him out of sync with pretty much the rest of the world, as far as linguistic understanding of the term.) -- Dogberry2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dogberry2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57706 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
