airtas Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 if you copy an audio cd do you lose any audio quality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bimicher Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 if you copy an audio cd do you lose any audio quality? If you make an exact copy there is no loss of quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 airtas Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 If you make an exact copy there is no loss of quality. how do you make an unexact copy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ogdens Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 how do you make an unexact copy? Haven't a clue how you make a "unexact" copy, but if you get it going, let us know how you did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Brendon Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Generally if you copy a CD with a copier program it will copy without conversion and you won't lose any quality. However if you ripped the audio off the CD into, say, MP3 files and then made an audio disc from those you would lose quality from the 'lossy' conversion that you did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 grandpabruce Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Haven't a clue how you make a "unexact" copy, but if you get it going, let us know how you did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 airtas Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Generally if you copy a CD with a copier program it will copy without conversion and you won't lose any quality. However if you ripped the audio off the CD into, say, MP3 files and then made an audio disc from those you would lose quality from the 'lossy' conversion that you did. would the audio cd be better worse or the same as the mp3 data cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ogdens Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 would the audio cd be better worse or the same as the mp3 data cd? Re read post #5 very carefully, then tell us what part you don't understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Brendon Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Copying with a disc-copier produces an original quality copy, unless the original is scratched. Converting from CD-Audio to MP3 is a lossy process. Some audio information is lost when you do it. You can convert MP3 back into CD-Audio, but the lost information is never restored. Regards, Brendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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