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Originally Posted by soniclover

Okay, to continue my question off

So, when you convert an a file format to another. Do you lose quality or anything?

Like Converting a WAV file to an Mp3 file.

You will lose quality if you convert a .wav file into .mp3. This is the whole point with a format such as MP3. Lesser quality, smaller file.

Basicly, unless you convert a file from one lossless format to another you will always loose in quality when converting audio files.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Namakemono

Does anyone know how to extract music from a DVD?

I use Imtoo's DVD Audio Ripper (Free Download) for this. Pretty straight forward and easy program to use.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

WAV, like any other lossless format is just that - loss-less. For archival purposes though, you'd want whatever is able to compress your .wav files/.iso file the most. It doesn't matter which of the these two you keep as they are of the same quality. The .mp3s though are of lower quality, the MP3 format being a lossy audio format. So try messing around with either FLAC or APE for your .wav files - and for the .iso, just use something like WinRAR.

Originally Posted by Maico

I've been using Moguta's guide to compress my music into VBR MP3s using the setting "-V 0 --vbr-new %s %d" which is like the best 192 VBR setting I guess (I forgot, but the reason I only use 192 VBR is because my portable MP3 player can't play any of those lossless formats, so I don't really bother using them.

When you encode using a variable bitrate setting as you're doing (and should be), the CBR value you choose has no importance, as you won't be using a constant bitrate anyway. You can set the drop-down* to whatever [*I'm assuming you're using EAC here].

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