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Lossless > Lossless Conversions

I have a ton of live music that is in SHN and other inferior formats that I want to convert to FLAC (I probably won't go WAVPack, but you opinion is welcome on that, mostly because the bulk is already FLAC).  People discourage sharing music once you convert it to another format, but lossless is lossless right?  I don't see the problem, but maybe some here could enlighten me as to what the reasoning is behind this.

Thanks

Lossless > Lossless Conversions

Reply #1 –
Yes, lossless is lossless. A lossless->lossless conversion is fine.

Lossless > Lossless Conversions

Reply #2 –
Exactly what I KNOW as well - I don't get why people can't get off their high horses and realize that.  Thanks for validating my knowledge
 

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: fatejd on
Exactly what I KNOW as well - I don't get why people can't get off their high horses and realize that.  Thanks for validating my knowledge


I suppose the most important thing is to make sure that you can convert it back to the original data format, including headers or other metadata, since that's the accepted trading format.

-brendan

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Reply #4 –
FLAC is fine. Lossless format zealotry is quite passe. Just do a bit of reading and pick one, and you don't even have to do the latter. I've got FLACs, APEs, WVs, and ALACs, although the APEs are going to get converted one of these days. Monkey's Audio has poor support in foobar2000.

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Reply #6 –
Hmm, I've been out of live show trading for a while, but my comments above were with respect to the old-school digital trading style where SHN was the defacto standard file format that all trades were expected to use.. .until I saw some other replies I hadn't realized this had moved to P2P nets.  Is that the case now?

-brendan

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Reply #7 –
The main "scene" I'm dealing with these days is Bit Torrent, and I guess that make sense what TrNSZ said about not being able to verify it's not a transcode.  I'll just keep them in their current form until I'm sure I won't need them to seed to other people.  Thanks for the comments guys.