Pooh Bear wrote:
Stimpy wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:

iTunes. http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Works well, easy to use,
and
has a good MP3/AAC/lossless encoding engine.

What do yoiu mean by a *lossless* 'encoder' ???

An encoder that doesn't irreversably corrupt the input signal as
part of the encoding process.

If you go WAV - MP3 - WAV, the final WAV is different from the
initial WAV.

If, OTOH, you go WAV - FLAC - WAV, the two WAV's are identical

MP3 is a lossy format,

That bit, I'm familiar with.

FLAC is a lossless format

No bit rate reduction ? I haven't come across FLAC yet.

Check it out; along with APE it's definitely *the* format for compressing
raw'WAVs. Sharing The Groove et al won't allow any lossy files to be
traded, everything is FLAC or APE (often further compressed into SHN)