Re: Integrated CD ripping/playing (instead of goobox/sound juicer)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:48:12 +0100 (CET), Reinout van Schouwen
<reinouts gnome org> wrote:

Hi,

> >> From a technical stand point, perhaps. From a users point, why? What's
> > the difference between copying normal files and music "files"?
> 
> For one, you don't usually encode normal files to a lossy format when
> copying them. Sure this is a technical point of view, but one that
> concerns the user in the end - isn't it reasonable to expect that
> copying a music file doesn't degrade sound quality?

This is a non-issue: just setting a default audio-profile with "High
quality/Low compression" should create an encoded version of the track
transparent enough for the common user. Audiophiles would just not use
a lossy format anyway - and they are a corner case anyway.

There could also be a "Raw" audio profile, for extracting a WAV out of
the CD, without encoding.

Regards,
 Emmanuele.

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