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malja316
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Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject:
Converting from MP3 to Wav: Does the Sound Quality Suffer? |
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Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurt
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net an
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted t
wav that it would actually help the sound quality?
Any help on this is greatly appreciated! Thanks for Reading
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Codifus
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Sun Aug 21, 2005 2:15 am Post subject:
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malja316 wrote:
| Quote: | Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
wav that it would actually help the sound quality?
Any help on this is greatly appreciated! Thanks for Reading!
You are converting from a lossy format to a non-lossy one. The non-lossy |
file, something.wav, will be way larger in file size. Absolutely no
improvement in sound will result. You will just have a wav file that
sounds just like the MP3 you converted from.
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Dave W
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Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:07 pm Post subject:
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"Codifus" <codifus@optonline.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | malja316 wrote:
Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
wav that it would actually help the sound quality? Any help on this is
greatly appreciated! Thanks for Reading!
You are converting from a lossy format to a non-lossy one. The non-lossy
file, something.wav, will be way larger in file size. Absolutely no
improvement in sound will result. You will just have a wav file that
sounds just like the MP3 you converted from.
CD
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As I understand it, MP3 players do not actually play the MP3 file, but
decode it to WAV format 'on the fly'.
Dave W. |
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Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:15 pm Post subject:
Re: Converting from MP3 to Wav: Does the Sound Quality Suffe |
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"malja316" <malja316.1tvje3@audiobanter.com> wrote in message
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Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
wav that it would actually help the sound quality?
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There is no way to help the sound quality. The only benefit to converting
from mp3 to wav is that you can then burn the results to a CDR and play it
on your hi-fi. Theoretically, the converted file will sound sligtly worse
than the mp3 it was derived from, but in practice the difference is
inaudible.
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Codifus
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject:
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Dave W wrote:
| Quote: | "Codifus" <codifus@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:R3NNe.2951$_7.2872@fe08.lga...
malja316 wrote:
Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
wav that it would actually help the sound quality? Any help on this is
greatly appreciated! Thanks for Reading!
You are converting from a lossy format to a non-lossy one. The non-lossy
file, something.wav, will be way larger in file size. Absolutely no
improvement in sound will result. You will just have a wav file that
sounds just like the MP3 you converted from.
CD
As I understand it, MP3 players do not actually play the MP3 file, but
decode it to WAV format 'on the fly'.
Dave W.
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Todd H.
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Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject:
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"Dave W" <david@briarwood134.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
| Quote: | As I understand it, MP3 players do not actually play the MP3 file, but
decode it to WAV format 'on the fly'.
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That's not a bad way of thinking of it.
Before the signal hits the digital to analog converters, it has to get
to a PCM (pulse code modulated) bitstream of uncompressed samples.
The D/A converter takes that and reconstructs the analog waveform that
ultimtely gets sent to the speakers to make sound.
MP3 is not a PCM format. It has to be decoded (uncompressed) into PCM
before a D/A converter can work on it. Hence the "on the fly"
decompression.
WAV on the other hand is a pretty darned simple PCM format.
Audio CD's are also encoded in very straightforward, uncompressed
PCM.
Those who were burning CD's years ago may recall the days when to burn
an audio CD you had to get the songs into WAV format first since CD
mastering software hadn't yet evolved to include mp3 decompression to
PCM on the fly.
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