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

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:

> > 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

> 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.

I wasn't saying it's a big issue, but the question was whether there was 
a difference between copying normal files and audio files with Nautilus. 
Here is one. You also don't have to set profiles for copying normal 
files.

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

Perhaps FLAC would fit somewhere in between?

regards,

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