Can Someone Break Down What Each Setting Does?

[mrcd]

[mrcd]

If lossless is lossless why the need for a 0-8? So does 0 make a smaller footprint in size than 8 or uncompressed? Just wondered why so many choices if the output is the same. What for example would be the benefit for choosing 8 over 0 which apparently will rip the CD fasted accomplishing the same results.

[Spoon]

All settings uncompress exactly the same, just the effort which goes into compressing, can give smaller file sizes.

[garym]

All lossless no matter what. All about file size. 8 smaller than 0. More ‘effort’ (longer) to compress to smaller size (eg 8) but only once upon file creation. Decoding makes essentially no difference.