Originally posted by DanLeCompte:
I'll just sit here with smug satisfaction that I outsmarted their millions of dollars of research and technology.


:-) WMA files are compressed, and it's lossy compression - you lose something in the signal to get it smaller. Most effects of this are compensated by your ears - but..

If you decompress that signal, you extrapolate information that wasn't there anymore. Burn it to CD, and it's a "so-so" copy of the original. Rip it back and recompress it to MP3, and you now have a mess. You are *again* removing information from the audio stream to get it smaller. Now it can't sound that good.....

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