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Originally posted by schmooky007
the thing with wave files is a lot of newbies think that decoding their mp3s to wave will restore all the lost information and make the song sound like the original, which is of course silly and untrue
you can also do this with other lossy formats
so, be careful not to waste your bandwidth on these "fake" wave files
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This is absolutely true and common enough to make trusted sources (who know what they are doing and appreciate quality) very valuable. I have come across some newbies who have kindly offered to rip an album into any bitrate you wish but soon it turns out that they are not ripping from the original CD but from a music CD that they have burned themselves perhaps from 128 kbs mp3s. And there are similarly ignorant newbies who kindly offer to convert their low bitrate mp3s to higher bitrates with 'this handy program that somebody gave them'.... not to talk about the dishonest traders who
know what they are doing when stretching bitrates of their merchandise.
- tg
