Difference between an Mp3 and a lossless FLAC file? Part 2
What is better mp3 or FLAC?
At present, music file playback formats are divided into two types: lossy compression and lossless compression. Music files using different formats have big differences in sound quality performance.
Commonly seen MP3, WMA, and OGG are called lossy compression. As the name suggests, lossy compression reduces the audio sample rate and bitrate, and the output audio file will be smaller than the original file. .
Another audio compression is called lossless compression, which can compress the volume of the audio file to a smaller size on the premise of saving 100% of all the data in the original file. Same size, same bitrate. Lossless compression formats include APE, FLAC, WAV, WavPack, LPAC, WMALossless, AppleLossless, TTA, Tak, TAC, La, OptimFROG, Shorten, while common and conventional lossless compression formats today include APE, FLAC, TTA, TAK, WAV, CD are generally lossless music.
The difference between lossless music and ordinary music: MP3, WMA and other common ordinary formats of different sizes take about 1M-5M space for one-handed songs, while for lossless format music such as ape and flac, the space occupied by a single song can generally reach tens of Mega, or even more than 100M; the format is different. Common music formats are MP3, WMA, OGG and other formats, while lossless music formats are commonly APE, FLAC, TTA, TAK, WAV. 3. The bit rate is different from ordinary music, such as WMA is generally 128kbps music, MP3 is mainly 128 or 192 or 320kbps/, while lossless music bit rate generally reaches 800-900 kbps, the traditional CD even reaches 1411 Kbps, using lossless compression, the sound quality is the most perfect. Note: Bit rate (Kbps) refers to the transmission rate of digital signals, that is, how many thousands of bits of information are transmitted per second (K means thousands of bits, Kb means how many thousands of bits). value, the better the sound quality. Introduced here, I think everyone has some understanding of the difference between lossless music and normal music. Now the question is, when downloading music, should we choose MP3 or lossless sound quality? Generally, the bit rate of MP3 music reaches 320kbps, and its sound quality is very good, and the bit rates of lossless music are generally around 800-900kbps or even higher.
