[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/26/2010 8:34 PM Mr.T spake thus:

"David Nebenzahl" wrote in message
s.com...

It would be nice to know how this works quantitatively, based on
empirical evidence. Not doubting you, just wondering how much loss
occurs right off the bat. If the 2nd decode-encode cycle adds negligible
loss, then it might be OK to edit the file to reverse the channels.

Simply do what I did and try it for yourself.
You won't get any "empirical evidence" here for *your* music with *your*
encoder, and *your* settings.

No, by empirical evidence I meant some numeric value of comparison. Say,
maybe, number of samples changed between original and re-encoded stream,
or some such, as a rough measure of corruption. Of course any other
comparisons are going to be subjective. (And of course the measure of
corruption would depend on the specific source material; what I'd be
after would be an average over many samples.)


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