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[โ€“] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Ogg is a lossy formar, Wav is not. They are not compatible.

The question should be "Flac or Wav?" And the answer is Flac, unless you need some kind of old compatibility.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

what does lossy mean and why flac

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lossy means that the compression gets rid of the finer points of data to save on space that usually wouldn't bee too noticeable in the music. Lossless keeps all the data

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