These days, it depends a great deal on the bit rate and the limits imposed by the size of the original files. FLAC will give you a file 50-60 percent of the original size (about two hours on a CD), with no loss of information; mp3 with a high bit rate will give you a file of 20 percent or less the size, and a hardly noticeable loss of information (much less loss than, say, an audio cassette recording).
It also depends on how complex the music is (more complex means more to lose) and how well it was recorded to begin with. If you are compiling music from old 78s, it's already lost most of what an mp3 will lose.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:03 AM, joel schalit <jschalit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Y. FLAC & Apple Lossless are the best-sounding formats for portable music
> players. MP3s sound awful.
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> Joel
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> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > depending on how important the quality of the music is to you, you might
> > want to download a freeware program that can rip the music into the .flac
> > format flac is lossless -- ie you lose none of the original
> information
> > (unlike mp3, which is lossy, and where you do lose a lot of the original
> > information) also, flac files are much smaller than wav files
> >
> > if you're compiling 'quality' music, this is the way to go imho
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