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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Are there any audiophiles left here?    |
|    01 Jan 22 08:54:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet f8030dac       REPLY: 2:280/464 61d05949       PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0500       Hello Wilfred van Velzen!              ** On Saturday 01.01.22 - 14:35, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to August Abolins:               BF>>> ..There's a long chain of possible POF on the way        AA>> ^^^        AA>> [?]               WvV> Points Of Failure              Thx.               AA>> FLAC also has various levels of compression too. Maybe        AA>> you could adjust that to get closer to the non-        AA>> discernable difference that you seek.               WvV> Flac is a lossless encoder, so the compression level        WvV> doesn't matter for the audio quality. It just influences        WvV> how much cpu cycles are spent on encoding and decoding        WvV> and the resulting file size.              Ah.. Interesting.              BTW, my PC's can't seem to play FLAC files directly (via VLC        player) The playback stops/stalls every few seconds. But if I        convert to AppleLossless, the playback is much better (iTunes).              --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.51        * Origin: Got mobile? Join MUSIC = https://tinyurl.com/yxptapwv (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/120 131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/250 757 7715 203/0 218/840 220/70 221/1 6 360       SEEN-BY: 226/17 30 229/424 426 428 664 700 249/307 400 250/5 8 261/38       SEEN-BY: 267/800 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 298/25 301/1 305/3       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 396/45 423/81 120 460/58 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 100 340 772/210 220 230 2320/105 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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