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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:59:00 PDT7
From:	butch langel <butch@fyrelizard.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: .flac music files

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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 05:09, Peter Skye wrote:
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> butch@fyrelizard.com wrote:
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> > .flac files
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> I just read the FLAC file format information at
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> http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html
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> The compression methods which FLAC uses are similar to existing ones,
> i.e. nothing really new although FLAC creates an error signal which is
> sent along with the compressed signal so you can get a lossless restore
> (sort of like comparing an MP3 to its original WAV file and sending each
> sample's error amount along with the MP3 so you can create an exact
> duplicate of the WAV by combining the MP3 and the error values).
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> Intriguingly, the math formulas which are a part of FLAC compression
> rely on a predicted future change in the signal, which is similar to at
> least one financial market prediction system.

I know that predicted change.......the brokerage house takes your money
and will churn, churn, churn it away.
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> - Peter
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