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		CyberDildonics on Sept 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLAC – Format overview That's not what lossless means here (or anywhere).

gspr on Sept 6, 2022 [–]

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CyberDildonics on Sept 6, 2022 | [–]

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gspr on Sept 6, 2022 | | [–]

What would you say that lossless means, then?

CyberDildonics on Sept 6, 2022 | | [–]

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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