cel4145
Headphoneus Supremus
No. I'm not neglecting that. That type of compression is more like zip--lossless that just eliminates redundant data that can be re-implemented in the uncompression step. And to go from one format to another, it has to be uncompressed or you cannot encode to mp3.
With mp3, the lossy part of the compression process is in the encoding. I believe (but not 100% certain) that m4a works the same way. It is irrelevant to the final audio quality whether one goes m4a>flac>mp3, m4a>wav>mp3, or m4a>mp3. The data loss will be the same.
With mp3, the lossy part of the compression process is in the encoding. I believe (but not 100% certain) that m4a works the same way. It is irrelevant to the final audio quality whether one goes m4a>flac>mp3, m4a>wav>mp3, or m4a>mp3. The data loss will be the same.