Re: Converting from MP3 to Wav: Does the Sound Quality Suffer?


"malja316" <malja316.1tvje3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello all! I was wondering if converting from MP3 to a Wav file hurts
> the overall audio quality. I am downloading music off the net and
> unfortunately they are mp3 files. I was hoping that if I converted to
> wav that it would actually help the sound quality?

There is no way to help the sound quality. The only benefit to converting
from mp3 to wav is that you can then burn the results to a CDR and play it
on your hi-fi. Theoretically, the converted file will sound sligtly worse
than the mp3 it was derived from, but in practice the difference is
inaudible.

Norm Strong


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