technohacker@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’ve rarely used CDs/DVDs but AFAIK it’s practically just a copy. Your PC can read the CD’s data, so it just saves that into a file
technohacker@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’ve rarely used CDs/DVDs but AFAIK it’s practically just a copy. Your PC can read the CD’s data, so it just saves that into a file
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
A straight copy will result in very large wav or aiff files, so there is usually the extra step of encoding it into a smaller compressed format. Lossless compression like FLAC allows for an exact reproduction of the original data, while lossy like mp3 will be an approximation with even smaller file sizes.