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Is the .wav format considered lossless? The new Creative Zen player plays wma, mp3 and wav. I have some CD's I want to add as lossless. Will the wav format work?
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Re: Is .wav lossless?
Yes, uncompressed WAV files are lossless. However, there are no ID Tags for WAV files. -
Re: Is .wav lossless?
Uncompressed wav files are huge, this is not what you'd normally put on a portable player. They take 10MB for each minute of audio. And none of the .wav formats has id tags, as LtData said, whether compressed or uncompressed.Originally posted by LtData
All lossless formats result in big files, but some are significantly smaller in size than uncompressed wav. Lossless .wma for instance. Still big, but about 40% smaller than the original ucompressed wav.Comment
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Re: Is .wav lossless?
Originally posted by ChristinaS
Will a mp3 player that plays wma play the wma lossless?Comment
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Re: Is .wav lossless?
Not necessarily, but you could try. WMA Lossless was introduced with WMP 9, so your player may or may not support it. If your player does not support it, for the best quality put the highest-bitrate WMA you can onto the player.Comment
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Re: Is .wav lossless?
No, currently no portables play WMA lossless.Comment
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Re: Is .wav lossless?
WMA lossless is too new, and besides, why not go for FLAC instead? Most portables, from the reviews I read, support the FLAC codec.
Also, please note that WAV/WAVE is lossless, assuming that you are using the PCM uncompressed 44.1 khz 16 bit format, not one of those compressed formats.
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