ipod recording

[William J Poser]

I don't think that anyone has suggested that existing audio recorded
with lossy compression be discarded. The topic has been how to make NEW
recordings, and for those lossy compression methods should be avoided
since they are both potentially destructive of information and unnecessary.

There have been a number of studies of the effects of minidisc
compression, and indeed, for most purposes, it is not a problem.
However, this doesn't bear on most of the devices under discussion
since the algorithm used for minidiscs, known as ATRAC, is not the
same as the more common MP3 compression.

Bill