itsmydamnation
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http://www.avsforum.com/t/350910/beware-wma-lossless-files-are-not just as an example, and it's not the only one.
There was one individual who insisted that simply copying the WAV from one hard drive to another resulted in "jitter" he could hear. This individual was not just some random guy, but a move professional, who insisted that he always received the same hard disk that the audio mix was created on.
We used to have some spirited discussions in the HD DVD days where folks would insist they could tell the difference between 5.1 PCM lossless and 5.1 dolby true-hd or 5.1 DTS HD MA.
story time. I was once transfering an Album to my iphone ( Hibria - blind ride) and as i was transfering ( no encode or anything was happening) a completely unrelated error poped up from another app. the sound that it made can now be heard in the file that was being transfered ( called nonconforming minds). i have checked the source and the sound isn't there.
so the question is how the hell does a sound end up in a compressed and encoded file while it is mearly being copied.