Rémi wrote:Thanks again for the link Martin.
Though it looks like it's not the complete show and it has been rearranged (
I've Got You Under My Skin being the first song instead of
I Love Being Here With You)
FM > WAV > CD-R > EAC > flac > WAV > digital remastering with WaveLab > flac
Strange lineage!
The FM is converted into .wav, then put on CD, then extracted from the CD with the EAC software to be converted into .flac format, then recoded into .wav to be "remastered" and finally recoded once again in .flac
Couldn't have been shorter!
All the more, because of all the codage and encodage done, obviously there must be loss in the audio (not necessarily audible for the listener though)
FYI I'd like to explain this necessary process:
FM > WAV > CD-R > EAC > flac > WAV > digital remastering with WaveLab > flac
I suppose that he got this concert on CD-R, previously recorded and burnt on CD-R by someone else.
EAC (Exact Audio Copy) is one of the best freeware SW for, among other features, extracting WAV files from audio CDs.
FLAC gives
losslessly compressed files, significantly smaller than WAV files. (I suppose that somebody sent or uploaded the concert in this way.)
BTW
FLAC stands for
Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC
without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player etc.
Digital remastering, with WaveLab or Cool Edit Pro or Adobe Audition or …, usually means remove noise, hiss, hum, clicks and pops etc. from digital audio WAV file.
Finally remastered (enhanced) audio is
losslessly compressed with
FLAC for uploading & downloading.
Hope that this helped.
Vera