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Re:FLAC – Format overview by CyberDildonics on Monday September 05, 2022 @11:36PM (#32732519)
That's not what lossless means here (or anywhere).
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by gspr on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:29AM (#32734076)
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by CyberDildonics on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:04AM (#32738060)
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by gspr on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @12:07PM (#32739088)
What would you say that lossless means, then?
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Re:FLAC – Format overview by CyberDildonics on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:25PM (#32740207)
It isn't me making these definitions. It means that a digital signal is encoded in a way that does not lose information from its original encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Lossless_Coding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lossless_compression_...

This is very common terminology.

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