{"id":2597,"date":"2009-01-21T12:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:56:39","slug":"lossless-and-lossy-audio-formats-for-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"Lossless and lossy audio formats for music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before changing the speakers in my car I thought that MP3 was the digital audio format that I would prefer for our entire cd collection. Last week, I was told that I should use lossless formats instead, but I did not care. But that was before yesterday. When out driving with the car listening to tracks on my Ipod I turned the volume all the way up to max without any problems. Somehow I was not pleased, I thought the sound&#8230;was a bit bad. But, then I switched to the cd-player&#8230;and whow!! So, now I have to delete all the MP3&#8217;s I have ripped, and instead use the FLAC-file format. You can read all about it here<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.bobulous.org.uk\/misc\/audioFormats.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before changing the speakers in my car I thought that MP3 was the digital audio format that I would prefer for our entire cd collection. Last week, I was told that I should use lossless formats instead, but I did not care. But that was before yesterday. When out driving with the car listening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15005,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/15005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}